Science is at long last within grasp of one of its "holy grails" - the location of an alien Earth. In the search for this intergalactic haven, astronomers have been shocked by the wide variety of planets around other nearby stars. Some are types of planets totally unknown before this past decade including monstrous gas...

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The extraordinary yet true account of a secret US government-backed attempt to build a spaceship the size of an ocean liner and send it to Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, propelled by thousands of miniature nuclear bombs. Beginning in 1958 Project Orion ran until 1965, employing some of the best scientists in the world,...

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This superb documentary has been quite a hit with the critics. A fascinating look at one of the most advanced space telescopes, it meets the scientists and engineers who put the telescope into space, the astronauts who fixed its faulty eyesight and the astronomers who use Hubble to unlock the secrets of the universe....

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A nice short video I found while surfing the net. It compares our size to the largest known stars by mankind. The stars listed in this video are the Sun, Sirius A, Pollux, Arcturus, Aldebaran, Rigel, Pistol Star, Antares A, Mu Cephei and VY Canis Majoris. They range from white dwarfs to red hypergiants.

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This documentary looks at the story of stellar evolution and explains the fates of differing types of stars. This includes small stars such as our own and also the big ones which collapse into neutron stars and black holes. The Sun And Other Stars gives you interesting information about the complete lifecycles of all...

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