The Complete Cosmos

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  • Premiered: Jan 1998
  • Episodes: 25
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  • Thursday at 22
  • Documentary Science-fiction

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Season 1
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The Sun
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Jan 01, 1998
THE SUN - Covers the birth, life and death of the Sun, interior dynamics and exterior fireworks, sunspots, the corona, solar winds and everything you need to know about our local star
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Mercury
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Jan 02, 1998
The most comprehensive portrait ever of this scorched little planet. Takes a look at double sunrises, craters, cracks and, incongruously, maybe polar ice
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Venus
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Jan 03, 1998
Looking at the planetary hell beneath the clouds, the poisonous, crushing atmosphere, seating heats, volcanoes and a runaway greenhouse effect
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Eartth
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Jan 04, 1998
The evolution of the earth and of life, its internal structure, continental drift, day length, seasons, oceans, climate, weather and El Nino
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Moon (aka Luna)
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Jan 05, 1998
The story of the Moon and its birth from collisions, its influence on Earth, Apollo landings and the recent discovery of water
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Mars
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Jan 06, 1998
Could cold arid Mars be the next place we land? Looking at polar caps, volcanoes, the biggest canyon ever seen and the possibility that Mars once had oceans.
1x7 Season finale
Jupitar
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Jan 07, 1998
Bigger than the other planets combined, Jupitar is a turbulent gas giant with 16 moons. We take a voyage through this mini Solar System.
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Saturn
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Jan 08, 1998
Exploring the many rings and moons of this exotic gas cloud and a preview of a landing on Titan, a moon like primitive Earth.
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Uranus and Neptune
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Jan 09, 1998
The outer giants. Uranus has a crazy tilt and a chaotic moon called Miranda and Neptune with tempests and a moon spurting geysers.
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Realm of the Comets
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Jan 10, 1998
Looking at comets and where the originate, the Oort Cloud and the Kuiper Belt and the possibility that pluto isn't a planet at all (recently declassified).
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Earth Patrol
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Jan 11, 1998
Launched into Earth-orbit, these are the satellites that monitor the health of our planet. Looking at the ozone, the melting ice-caps, weather, deforestation and navigation.
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Space Frontier
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Jan 12, 1998
Human space exploration, from Yuri Gagarin's first orbit of space to the race for the Moon and the Apollo landings.
1x13
High Life
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Jan 13, 1998
Living and working in space, triumphs, tragedies and everyday practicalities on the Russian space-station Mir and America's Space Shuttle.
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Robots
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Jan 14, 1998
A look at our scouts in the Solar System. Probes that trail-blaze on Mars, plunge into Jupiter and land on Saturn's moon Titan.
1x15
Where Next ?
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Jan 15, 1998
The possibility of a spaceport in Earth-orbit, the colonisation of the Moon and Mars, the taming of Venus, plus an elevator into space !
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Breakthrough !
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Jan 16, 1998
From the ancient sky-watchers of Babylon to space-age cosmology, the story of astronomy featuring Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton and Hubble.
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Aurorae and Eclipses
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Jan 17, 1998
Taking a look at celestial shows, how the solar wind conjures an aurora, lunar and solar eclipses explained and a recent eclipse of the Sun.
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Impact !
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Jan 18, 1998
Exploring the threats of comets and asteriods and what would happen if the spacerock that slew the dinosaurs hit New York today.
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Light Fantastic
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Jan 19, 1998
Visible light reveals only part of the Universe. We look at how other wavelengths fill out the picture, from gamma-rays to radio.
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Lifequest
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Jan 20, 1998
Is there life elsewhere in the Solar System? Could life be sustained on Jupiter's moon Europa or even Saturn's moon Titan in the future?
1x21
Milky Way
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Jan 21, 1998
Our galaxy explored and light years explained. Looking at the life and death of stars, supernovae and the clouds where stars are born.
1x22
Hubble's Eye
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Jan 22, 1998
After astronauts fix its faulty optics, the Hubble Space Telescope peers back through time to the depths of the cosmos.
1x23 Season finale
Infinity
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Jan 23, 1998
Looking at the structure of the Universe, galaxies, clusters, strands and how we measure to a nearby galaxy and to the farthest quasar.
1x24
Big Bang, Big Crunch
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Jan 24, 1998
The theory of the Big Bang explained and how from that cataclysmic explosion the Universe continues to expand, but will it stop and reverse ?
1x25 Show finale
Black Holes, Dark Matter
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Jan 25, 1998
Although invisible, black holes betray their presence, which is the same with dark matter: the missing 90% of the Universe.

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