
This series explores the lives and work of noted modern-day astronomers, taking the viewer into the farthest reaches of outer space in search of black holes, quasars, dark matter, gravity waves, stars and evidence of planets outside our solar system. Intriguing celestial phenomena are examined from the perspectives of the experts: the men and women that are uncovering the secrets of the cosmos. Further, the series focuses not only on professional achievements, but on the scientists' personal lives as well.
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Air Date: 1991-04-12
Astronomers believe the universe contains at least ten times as much mass as can be seen and accounted for. How are t...
Air Date: 1991-04-15
At the center of galaxy NGC 1275, some 200 million light years from Earth, there might be a supermassive black hole. ...
Air Date: 1991-04-16
American and Japanese astronomers are followed as they seek to measure cosmic background radiation, the heat remainin...
Air Date: 1991-04-17
Gravity waves, as yet undetected but predicted by Albert Einstein, may contain the answers to many questions about th...
Air Date: 1991-04-18
The deaths of stars allow human lives to come into being. This episode explains how and looks at the complete life cy...
Air Date: 1991-04-19
Efforts to discover other planetary systems and to learn more about the planets of our own solar system are examined....