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Universe
The Sun: God Star
- Broadcast
- 2021 (59 mins)
Professor Brian Cox begins his epic exploration of the cosmos with a hymn to the great luminous bodies that bring light and warmth to the universe: the stars. We estimate that there are two hundred trillion...
Universe
Alien Worlds: The Search for Second Earth
- Broadcast
- 2021 (59 mins)
Humans have long gazed up at the night sky, wondering whether other lifeforms and intelligences could be thriving on worlds far beyond our own. Answering that question seemed fated to remain pure...
Universe
The Milky Way: Island of Light
- Broadcast
- 2021 (59 mins)
Professor Brian Cox continues his epic exploration of the cosmos by exploring the faint band of light that sweeps across the night sky - our own galaxy, the Milky Way. The sun is just one of almost 400...
Universe
Black Holes: Heart of Darkness
- Broadcast
- 2021 (59 mins)
Professor Brian Cox continues his epic exploration of the universe with a journey into darkness. The centre of our galaxy is home to an invisible monster of unimaginable power - a supermassive black hole...
Universe
The Big Bang: Before the Dawn
- Broadcast
- 2021 (59 mins)
Professor Brian Cox asks the ultimate question: how did the Universe come to be? The Universe is daunting in its scale. We live on one planet of eight that orbit just one of the four hundred billion stars in...
The Planets
Episode 1 - A Moment in the Sun - The Terrestrial Planet
- Broadcast
- 2019 (58 mins)
In this major new landmark series, Professor Brian Cox tells the extraordinary life story of our solar system. For four and a half billion years each of the planets has been on an incredible journey, filled...
The Planets
Episode 2 - The Two Sisters - Earth and Mars
- Broadcast
- 2019 (58 mins)
Early in the story of The Planets, there was a beautiful water world, an oasis of hope in a sterile universe. But this was not Earth - this was the young Mars. Professor Brian Cox continues his tour of the...
The Planets
Episode 3 - The Godfather
- Broadcast
- 2019 (58 mins)
Professor Brian Cox continues his exploration of the solar system with a visit to a planet that dwarfs all the others: Jupiter. Its enormous size gives it a great power that it has used to manipulate the...
The Planets
Episode 4 - Life Beyond the Sun: Saturn
- Broadcast
- 2019 (58 mins)
Saturn is the jewel of the solar system, the most seductive of all the planets, but as Professor Brian Cox reveals - it wasn’t born that way. Raised in the freezing outer reaches of the solar system Saturn...
The Planets
Episode 5 - Into the Darkness: Ice Worlds
- Broadcast
- 2019 (58 mins)
In the final episode of The Planets, Professor Brian Cox journeys to the remotest part of the solar system, a place that the most mysterious planets call home. These worlds remain shadowy for a simple...