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Cosmology, Physics Documentaries are FASCINATING. Some students might remember a boring Wonder Years type professor droning on in high school, but times have changed, the physics documentary has changed, and cosmology and physics documentaries are as cutting edge as a knife, but far more penetrating into what makes the world tick. Watch one physics or cosmology documentary and you will be hooked. Guaranteed.

• Ian Morison: The Search for Other Worlds (lecture)

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  Whether or not E.T. really exists in our universe is one of the hottest ongoing topics within astronomy. Between the many theories surrounding alien life and the full-feature films that make them seem all too real, we can’t help but wonder if they really do exist. Scientists are constantly searching for other solar systems, other
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• Cosmic Journeys: Crashing into the Moon

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  Cosmic Journey: Crashing into the Moon explores the new space race. It examines how over the next decade many countries and even private companies have plans to send rockets on an exploration to the moon. Their mission: to search for clues to the moon’s origin, determine whether humans could live on it and to map
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• How The Earth Was Made – Birth Of The Earth

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  How The Earth Was Made – Birth Of The Earth continues our ‘eye candy HD’ series of cosmic explorations. Today, we’re going back in time – wayyyyyyyy back, to the beginning of Earth. Earth, like you’ve never seen it before! Enjoy the documentary and thanks to Robbyou for the recommendation.  

• Asteroid Impact – Discovery Channel

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  While this is not an actual documentary this simulation from the Discovery Channel is a powerful and realistic image. It offers the effect an asteroid would have if it ever hit planet Earth. There isn’t a better soundtrack for this asteroid to travel through space and eventually hit Earth with than Pink Floyd. It’s captivating
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• Cosmic Journeys – Attack of the Sun

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  Scientists have recently discovered the Sun’s moodiness can change the course of our climate. Many I suppose would argue that the Sun is a female because of her moodiness, but you can be the judge of that as this documentary takes us inside the Sun. The documentary examines what causes the Sun’s anger. Cosmic Journey:
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• 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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• 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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