How the Universe Works - Season 2

How the Universe Works - Season 2

Season 2

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Episodes8
DatesJul 11, 2012 - Aug 29, 2012
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Episodes

Volcanoes - The Furnaces of Life
Season 2Episode 160 min

Volcanoes - The Furnaces of Life

Scientists are discovering volcanoes on worlds we once thought dead. From our nearest planetary neighbor to tiny moons billions of miles away, today, we are discovering volcanoes on alien worlds. Are these worlds where, tomorrow, we might find life?

Jul 11, 2012
Megastorms - The Winds of Creation
Season 2Episode 260 min

Megastorms - The Winds of Creation

Examining chaotic weather to help determine whether we are alone in the universe.

Jul 18, 2012
Exoplanets - Planets from Hell
Season 2Episode 360 min

Exoplanets - Planets from Hell

Discovering an extraordinary zoo of planetary nightmares outside our own planet.

Jul 25, 2012
Megaflares - Cosmic Firestorms
Season 2Episode 460 min

Megaflares - Cosmic Firestorms

The Universe is a magnetic minefield. Spinning star systems crackle and explode, magnetic monsters rip worlds apart, star-quakes shoot beams of devastating energy, and galactic flamethrowers fire gamma-rays halfway across the Universe. Could the earth be in the line of fire from the dangerous megaflares from the sun?

Aug 1, 2012
Extreme Orbits - Clockwork and Creation
Season 2Episode 560 min

Extreme Orbits - Clockwork and Creation

Orbits are a creative force and construct the fabric of the Universe.

Aug 8, 2012
Comets - Frozen Wanderers
Season 2Episode 660 min

Comets - Frozen Wanderers

Following the journey of a comet from its beginning as cosmic detritus floating around the outer limits of the solar system to the outgassing process as the comet approaches the sun. Watch the movement of a comet as it evolves from a chunk of ice and rock into an active nucleus engulfed in a gaseous haze.

Aug 15, 2012
Asteroids - Worlds That Never Were
Season 2Episode 760 min

Asteroids - Worlds That Never Were

Asteroids shaped our past and promise much in the future; revealing the mysteries behind giant asteroids that influence the creation and destruction of life on Earth.

Aug 22, 2012
Birth of the Earth
Season 2Episode 860 min

Birth of the Earth

The Earth was formed by a series of cosmic cataclysms, including the most powerful blast in the universe. Could the same chain of events have created other earths elsewhere, inhabited by creatures like us?

Aug 29, 2012

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