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Astronomy, Space Documentaries

Astronomy and Space Documentaries are a very special category. They ask the questions: what is out there? Are we alone in the universe? And many more. Astronomy and space helped us put a man on the moon and now the possibilities are endless. Some of these astronomy and space documentaries look like episodes of Star Trek, the technology has become so advanced in the 21st century. It’s exciting! The best of the astronomy and space documentaries are listed below. Space, the final frontier…enjoy!

• Wright Brothers’ Flying Machine

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  Wright Brothers’ Flying Machine is a documentary about the airplane. Suddenly, distances shrank, war became more brutal and less human, and the world started looking towards the stars with more and more confidence. Watch Wright Brothers’ Flying Machine NOW.

• Cosmic Journeys: The Asteroid that Flattened Mars

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  In another part of the Cosmic Journey series, The Asteroid that Flattened Mars it examines the red planet, Mars. Approximately every two years, the planet Mars comes its closest to Earth, roughly 36 million miles. It is when Mars reaches this point that we attempt to reach it. Since the early 1960s we have attempted
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• NASA Operation IceBridge: A Science Lab in the Arctic Sky

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  Operation IceBridge has been set up by NASA in 2009 and will be operational until 2015. It works as a temporary replacement for a satellite that had technically malfunctioned. This mission was undertaken to monitor the changes in the ice conditions of the polar regions. The IceBridge program makes use of a DC-8 jetliner for
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• Cosmic Journeys – Saturn’s Mysterious Moons

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  A mysterious world 900 million miles in the outer regions of our Solar System circling around the planet Saturn is waiting to be discovered. Founded by W. Herschel in 1789, Enceladus remains composed in ice. It is one of the most radiant objects in our solar system because almost all of the sunlight that hits
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• Cosmic Journeys: The Largest Black Holes in the Universe

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  The Cosmic Journey series takes us on another galactic voyage, a voyage for an image of something we have been yet to see. They take us on a trek in search of the galaxy’s largest black holes. How big can these mysterious black holes become? What is the largest black hole discovered to date and
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• NASA – New Eye on the Sun Delivers Stunning Results (April 2010)

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  This is actually just a video documentary of the actual sun, which was taken by NASA from its Solar Dynamics Observatory. The SDO mission was launched in 2010 and made used of a highly advanced spacecraft that was designed specifically for this. The mission is set for a five-year duration wherein the spacecraft will have
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• Cosmic Journeys – How Large is the Universe?

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  How Large is the Universe? Not a small question by any sense of the means and not an easy one either. As part of the sensational Cosmic Journeys series, this mini-documentary answers that question and more. The universe has fascinated many of us for a lot of years because of its immense scales of distance
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• Cosmic Journeys – When Will Time End

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  Time is flying by on this busy, crowded planet as life changes and evolves from second to second. And yet, even the life span of the human species is just a blip compared to the age of the universe, at 13.7 billion years and counting. It now seems that our entire universe is living on
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• Secret Space

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  It’s time to travel deep inside the secret world of NAZI Germany. A world in which ex-French Resistance fighters and Jews were used as slave labour to create rocket-based weapons. For example, the V2 and the V1 ‘Doodlebug’, the predecessor of modern days ‘Cruise’ missile. Onward from the late 1940s, an group of O.T.O. devotees,
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• Is Everything We Know About The Universe Wrong?

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  The Big Bang Theory has been widely accepted forever as how the universe was created, but is there a chance it could be wrong? Is there really a possibility that everything we thought we knew about our universe is wrong? This ground-breaking documentary explores the revolutionary theory of Dark Flow. Sasha Kaslinsky is the scientist
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