The Universe Season 1 has 13 episodes (44 minutes each) plus a bonus, 90-minute "Beyond The Big Bang" episode. Complex concepts and theories are explained by relating them to easily graspable concepts. The visuals are awesome.
The Universe Season 1 - A Video Snippet
A snippet of the End of The Earth episode of Universe Season 1
Here is a summary of the contents of this set of Universe DVDs/Blu-ray disks: -
A snippet of the End of The Earth episode of Universe Season 1
Here is a summary of the contents of this set of Universe DVDs/Blu-ray disks: -
| Episode Name | Episode Summary |
|---|---|
| The Secrets of The Sun | A look at how the Sun was formed and how it might die, how it makes its energy, what are sunspots, solar flares, solar eclipses, etc. |
| Mars, The Red Planet | NASA's Mars probes and what life might have looked like if it existed in the past on the Red-planet. A look at Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the solar system. |
| End of The Earth | Shows how asteroids or comets could collide with our Earth and destroy it. Also shows how solar flares or gamma-ray bursts would end our world, and what scientists can possibly do to save us from such disasters. |
| Jupiter, The Giant Planet | The formation and composition of Jupiter and its 60+ moons, some of which might support life. |
| The Moon | Formation of the Moon and its role in the evolution of life on Earth. NASA's plans of colonization of the Moon. |
| Spaceship Earth | The formation of the Earth, evolution of life, and how earth could be destroyed. |
| Mercury & Venus, The Inner Planets | A look at the two inner planets scorched by the heat of the sun; acid rains, greenhouse of toxic atmosphere... Could strange life-forms evolve on these hostile planets? |
| Saturn, Lord of the Rings | Mysteries of Saturn and its fabulous rings. Are there huge resources of petroleum on Titan, one of Saturn's moons? |
| Alien Galaxies | An amazing view of the distant galaxies as seen through the Hubble Space Telescope. |
| Life & Death of a Star | How stars are born in the Universe and what happens when they die. |
| The Outer Planets | The most distant worlds within our Solar System: Uranus, a gas giant and Triton, its wildly orbiting moon; Neptune and its moons; the dwarf-planet Pluto, which takes 248 years to revolve around the Sun. |
| Most Dangerous Places | The most dangerous things known in space -- black holes, deadly gamma ray bursts, magnetars, and galactic collisions. |
| Search for E.T. | The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) and the possibility of extraterrestrial life on Europa, Titan and beyond. |
| Beyond the Big Bang | A 90-minute documentary on how the Universe continues to expand at an ever-accelerating rate, and what was there billions of years ago when the Big-Bang occurred. Leading physicists theorize how energy became matter forming stars and galaxies. This is a bonus video on this set of Universe DVDs/Bluray disks |
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N.B. The looks of the package and the total number of DVDs/disks might vary across different countries.