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What causes Jupiter's Great Red Spot? How have volcanoes shaped the land on many planets? How do space shuttles launch and dock with space stations? This series introduces young readers to the objects within our solar system and the tools people use to explore the mysteries of space.

12 episodes

Series Premiere

1x01 The Quest for Life

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Our galaxy alone contains hundreds of billions of stars, giving scientists a vast cosmic frontier to search. Could alien life be looking up at its own sky and asking, "Is there life out there?" Learn about the amazing quest for life that begins on Earth and extends into the heavens above.

1x08 La Menace

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1x09 Solar Superstorms

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Documentary showing the power and size of Sun spots. They also recount the famous solar storm of 1859—known as the Carrington Event.

This program shows the work to build a scale model of the solar system. In a dry lake bed in Nevada they build a model with its distances perfectly to scale.

This program features the Hubble Telescope and showcases many of its images.

1x12 NASA: The Sun in 4K

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Labelled as "NASA Thermonuclear Art The Sun in 4K", this file was released by NASA and features high-definition footage of our Sun.

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