The Universe Season 5 Episode 8 Dark Future Of The Sun

TV Show: The Universe

Aired on: 8:00 PM on September 23rd, 2010 – Thursday

Channel: HISTORY Channel

Episode Details: Season 5 Episode 8

Episode Name: Dark Future Of The Sun

Preview:

Our Sun has served Earth well for almost five billion years. It’s bathed us with heat and energy. But like humans, our home star is mortal. In five billion years, it will stop nurturing its planetary offspring. The aging star will bloat out beyond the orbit of our planet incinerating all living things–including humans if we’re still around.

The Universe Season 5 Episode 8 Dark Future Of The Sun 

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The Universe Season 5 Episode 7 Total Eclipse

TV Show: The Universe

Aired on: 8:00 PM on September 16th, 2010 – Thursday

Channel: HISTORY Channel

Episode Details: Season 5 Episode 7

Episode Name: Total Eclipse

Preview

Once they were dreaded and thought to be dragons eating the sun–but modern science has dispelled mythology and we now look forward to total Solar Eclipses as one of the most spectacular phenomena in the heavens. Explore the complex movements of Earth, Moon and Sun that produce these unusual events and hear details why we may be the only intelligent beings in the known Universe to witness eclipses like we see on Earth. Man-made eclipses also figure into the science in the form of instruments called “coronagraphs.” They blot out the sun and reveal its corona, uncovering secrets which, while enlightening, also warn of a disaster that could make our advanced technology crash and burn. Finally, travel into deep space, where the tiny eclipses caused by planets circling distant stars is now beginning to reveal hundreds more stars where “exoplanets” exist… perhaps even those in habitable zones like the Earth.

The Universe Season 5 Episode 7 Total Eclipse

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