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How the Universe Works

Season 9 2021
TV-PG

  • 2021-03-25T01:00:00Z on Science
  • 42m
  • 8h 24m (11 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary
A users' guide to the cosmos, from the Big Bang to galaxies, stars, planets and moons: where did it all come from and how does it all fit together? A primer for anyone who has ever looked up at the night sky and wondered.

12 episodes

Season Premiere

2021-03-25T01:00:00Z

9x01 Journey to a Black Hole

Season Premiere

9x01 Journey to a Black Hole

  • 2021-03-25T01:00:00Z1h 24m

Journey to the heart of the M87 supermassive black hole, the first and only black hole ever photographed, and explore the mystery of how it grew so large, what lies inside, and how it controls the entire galaxy.

2021-04-01T01:00:00Z

9x02 Mission to a Comet

9x02 Mission to a Comet

  • 2021-04-01T01:00:00Z42m

Experts embark on a ground-breaking mission to land on a comet.

2021-04-08T01:00:00Z

9x03 Secrets Of The Sun

9x03 Secrets Of The Sun

  • 2021-04-08T01:00:00Z42m

A brand-new NASA mission to the Sun reveals cutting-edge discoveries about Earth's star; as the Parker Solar Probe dives through the Sun's atmosphere, what it finds challenges everything known about this strange place.

2021-04-15T01:00:00Z

9x04 Aliens of the Microcosmos

New discoveries reveal the power of microscopic alien organisms.

2021-04-22T01:00:00Z

9x05 Curse of the White Dwarf

9x05 Curse of the White Dwarf

  • 2021-04-22T01:00:00Z42m

Dead stars called white dwarfs may be the key to understanding the cosmos.

2021-04-29T01:00:00Z

9x06 War of the Galaxies

9x06 War of the Galaxies

  • 2021-04-29T01:00:00Z42m

Galaxies are locked in continual combat across the universe, and our own Milky Way will face its biggest opponent ever, the Andromeda Galaxy, in a titanic and deadly struggle that could create a new and unrecognizable super galaxy.

2021-05-06T01:00:00Z

9x07 The Next Supernova

9x07 The Next Supernova

  • 2021-05-06T01:00:00Z42m

The galaxy is full of stars ready to explode into supernovas, a stellar detonation powerful enough to destroy all life on Earth; it's an event that hasn't occurred in 400 years, and the search is on to locate which star may be next.

2021-05-13T01:00:00Z

9x08 Secret Lives Of Neutrinos

Neutrinos are the most mysterious particles in the universe, and they power some of the most explosive events in the cosmos; new discoveries reveal how these ghosts pass through objects undetected and why they could be the reason humans exist.

New discoveries reveal an astonishing supermassive black hole that was born during the earliest days of the cosmos, and finding out how this giant grew so large so quickly may help to explain the very formation of the universe itself.

Gravitational waves are helping scientists explore the cosmos in revolutionary, new ways, and the discoveries they make are revealing the universe’s greatest mysteries.

Season Finale

2021-06-03T01:00:00Z

9x11 Mystery of Alien Worlds

Season Finale

9x11 Mystery of Alien Worlds

  • 2021-06-03T01:00:00Z42m

New discoveries reveal the secrets of mysterious alien worlds.

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