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Scattered across the night sky in immense numbers are the alchemists of our cosmos - the stars. They forge new elements inside their raging nuclear core and cast them out in cataclysmic supernova explosions. Many of these extreme monsters grow hundreds of times larger than our Sun and burn over million times brighter. But could the life and death of the most extreme stars in the cosmos be key to understanding our very existence? This episode follows scientists investigating some of the earliest stars in the universe, over 13 billion years back in time. Astronomers at Jodrell Bank in the UK reveal how even inside the aftermath of a massive stellar explosion, a freakish zombie star that cannibalises others can rise from the dead. We join astrophysicists working in laboratories hidden under the Gran Sasso mountains in Italy who are hoping to foresee a supernova explosion. CGI animation will tie together clues from ongoing scientific missions around the world and reveal how integral stars...
All Episodes - S02
EPS01
We strip apart black holes, one of the most feared objects in the universe, and tear off swirling galaxies of stars, planets, and cosmic dust layer by layer to explore th ...
EPS02
Scattered across the night sky in immense numbers are the alchemists of our cosmos - the stars. They forge new elements inside their raging nuclear core and cast them out ...
EPS03
We strip apart asteroids and peel back surfaces, slice open craters, and exploding out rocks layer by layer to explore these miniature worlds and the secrets of the early ...
EPS04
Jupiter is a planet of extremes. Twice the size of all the other planets in our solar system combined it's formed almost entirely from Hydrogen just like the sun. Yet lit ...
EPS05
How much more is there to the Universe than meets the eye? In this episode, we join the scientists who hunt for our hidden cosmos. In New Mexico, radio astronomers probe ...
EPS06
The solar system and its planets seem like a familiar place. Yet scientists now think they've detected something huge lurking in the far reaches of the system we call hom ...