1.1 Universe DVDs - The Universe Season 1

The Universe: The Complete Season One is available on a set of 4 DVDs or 3 Blu-ray disks with a total run time of 705 minutes. In this show the topics discussed range from ancient attempts to map the Universe, to modern scientific understandings of the wonders of Solar System, faraway stars, galaxies, etc.

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




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The Universe Season 1 - A Summary of its Episodes

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

The Universe Season 1 Sets of DVDs and Blu-ray Disks

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1.2 Universe DVDs - The Universe Season 2

The Universe: The Complete Season Two is available on a set of 5 DVDs (Steelbook) or Blu-ray disks with a total run time of 846 minutes.

The Universe Season 2 has 18 episodes (about 44 minutes each). It includes discussions on fascinating topics such as colonizing space, building a space elevator to an artificial satellite revolving around the Earth at a distance of 60,000 miles from it, effect of Moon on human and animal behavior, how life could evolve on planets vastly different than the Earth, if the Universe will ultimately collapse and disappear into a "cosmic ice age", etc.

The Universe Season 2 - A Video Snippet

A snippet of the Unexplained Mysteries episode of Universe Season 2




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The Universe Season 2 - A Summary of its Episodes

Episode Name	Episode Summary
Alien Planets	A look at some of the most interesting extra-solar planets that have been discovered, and how scientists find planets outside the Solar System.
Cosmic Holes	A look at mysterious black holes, micro black holes, and the hypothetical white holes and wormholes.
Mysteries of The Moon	Explanations of some strange mysteries of the Moon that have baffled astronomers for centuries e.g. transient lunar phenomenon, effect of the Moon on animal behavior, ocean tides, etc.
The Milky Way	The wonders of the Milky Way; how stars die only to provide material for the birth of new stars; a look at the massive black hole that lies in the center of the Milky Way; how stars get thrown away from the center of the Milky Way towards its outer arms.
Alien Moons	A look at moons like Lo, Europa, Triton, and Kuiper Belt objects.
Dark Matter and Dark Energy	About 96% mass of the Universe is undetectable and is called, "Dark Matter". An unseen force that keeps expanding the Universe is called "Dark Energy". A look at this strange theory.
Astrobiology	A look at search for life in outer space; how life could evolve on planets that are very different than Earth; what the ancient life forms of Earth tell us about life on other worlds.
Space Travel	Innovative propositions about the future of space travel e.g. propulsion by solar sails and laser beams, use of antimatter as fuel, etc.
Supernovas	Exploding stars that shine brighter than a 100 billion Suns. Stardust and the building blocks of planets and life.
Constellations	How the ancient people used some of the 88 constellations visible from the surface of the Earth to navigate and explore the oceans.
Unexplained Mysteries	Myths, misconceptions and facts about the Universe, ranging from Einstien's theories of relativity and time travel to life on Mars.
Cosmic Collisions	Collisions of asteroids and comets with planets and the extinction of life forms due to such impacts. Effects of collision of stars and entire galaxies.
Colonizing Space	How permanent human colonies will be established on the Moon and Mars. How Mars can be made more habitable by terraforming it. How food will be grown and waste recycled.
Nebulas	Spectacular "art galleries of the galaxies" where new stars are born and old stars die.
Wildest Weather in the Cosmos	Freakish weather phenomena in worlds within our Solar System, ranging from tornadoes having a wind-speed of over 6,000 miles per hour to rain made of molten iron!
Biggest Things in Space	A look at some of the largest known objects in outer-space: Lyman-alpha blob, cosmic web, super-galaxies, super massive black holes, radio lobes, and the biggest void in space.
Gravity	The role of gravity in the Universe, the effects of weightlessness on astronauts, simulation of weightlessness in "vomit comet" aircraft.
Cosmic Apocalypse	How the Universe could vanish in the blink of an eye and nobody could do anything to prevent this doomsday -- "random quantum fluctuation", "cosmic ice age" and other apocalyptic theories explained.

The Universe Season 2 Sets of DVDs and Blu-ray Disks

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1.3 Universe DVDs - The Universe Season 3

The Universe: The Complete Season Three is available on a set of 4 DVDs or 3 Blu-ray disks with a total run time of 564 minutes.

The Universe Season 3 has 12 episodes (about 44 minutes each). It contains some spectacular computer generated animations which provide a deep understanding of the complexities of the Universe. The topics discussed range from "Parallel Universes" to sex in outer-space.

The Universe Season 3 - A Video Snippet

A snippet of the Parallel Universes episode of Universe Season 3




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The Universe Season 3 - A Summary of its Episodes

Episode Name	Episode Summary
Deep Space Disasters	A look at space hazards faced by astronauts on their missions e.g. launch explosions, failed reentries, micrometeoroid hits, etc. Some other potential dangers such as solar flares, gamma-ray bursts, and encounters with black holes are also discussed.
Parallel Universes	A look at some intriguing alternative realities and higher dimensions of existence. Amazing theories of multiverse and parallel dimensions. Particle collider experiments and the unbelievable notion that everything and everyone living on Earth might have an exact duplicate copy existing simultaneously somewhere else in a "Parallel Universe".
Light Speed	According to Einstein, particles with a mass can't travel faster than the speed of light. This show explains what happens when something travels nearly as fast as the speed of light; and what would happen if something traveled faster than the speed of light. It also explains if it is possible to exceed the speed of light.
Sex in Space	Experiments on human-sexuality in outer space, the complications that could arise for pregnancy and childbirth in micro-gravity, and its implications for colonization of other planets.
Alien Faces	How the environment plays a role in the evolution of life; how living-things found in the oceans look different from living-things found on land, and what this could mean if life was found on alien worlds with alien environments.
Deadly Comets and Meteors	The role of comets and meteors in the solar system and in the extinction of dinosaurs. Could the dust of comets infect the Earth with alien viruses?
Living in Space	A look at different forms that human colonies could take in outer space. Could robots help our survival in outer space? How would we grow food and gather resources to sustain our colonies outside planet Earth?
Stopping Armageddon	Everything that the scientists could possibly do to save the Earth from the impact of a deadly meteor heading toward it -- deflecting the huge meteor with laser beams, solar sails, nukes, rockets that could attach to it and divert it away from Earth, satellites acting as artificial gravity sources, etc.
Another Earth	The techniques that scientists use to search exoplanets similar to our Earth; how candidate-stars are chosen for possible discovery of Earth-like planets revolving around them.
Strangest Things	A look at some of the strangest things in the Universe: invisible dark-matter, strange stars, strange moons, exotic particles, intriguing black-holes, etc.
Edge of Space	Outer-space as a tourist destination, a $20 million holiday trip to International Space Station, setting up hotels in space, preventing hazards such as space debris and exposure to cosmic radiation.
Cosmic Phenomena	Charming aurora borealis, exotic meteor showers, the miracle of photosynthesis. How solar flare activity can jam electronics on Earth and also cause harm to life.

The Universe Season 3 Sets of DVDs and Blu-ray Disks

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==> Also check out The Universe Season 4, The Universe Season 5 and The Universe History Channel complete series megaset of Universe DVDs/Blu-ray disks.

Please note that The Universe Complete Series megaset by the History Channel contains all the five seasons of The Universe.

1.4 Universe DVDs - The Universe Season 4

The Universe: The Complete Season Four is available on a set of 4 DVDs or 3 Blu-ray disks with a total run time of 564 minutes.

The Universe Season 4 has 12 episodes (about 44 minutes each). It has stunning HD graphics and highly advanced computer generated images and animations that shed light on mind-blowing wonders of the Universe.

The topics discussed range from the bizarre and catastrophic events that would occur on Earth if the Moon were to disappear, to the use of artificial satellites and advanced weapons for space warfare.

The Universe Season 4 - A Video Snippet

A snippet of the Star Wars episode of Universe Season 4




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The Universe Season 4 - A Summary of its Episodes

Episode Name	Episode Summary
Death Stars	Stars that could wipe out all life trillions of miles away from them! WR104 Wolf-Rayet star could point a destructive gamma-ray burst at Earth. A Death Star Galaxy such as 3C 321 could be destructive for the entire Milky Way galaxy. Other stars and star-systems that could spell disaster for the Earth are Betelgeuse and Eta Carinae.
The Day the Moon Was Gone	Strange things that would happen if the Moon wasn't there; e.g. we would have just four hours of sunlight, wild hurricanes with wind speeds reaching 100 miles per hour would hit the Earth, there would be drastic climate changes, pitch-black nights, and end of human and complex forms of life on Earth!
It Fell From Space	Bizarre things that have fallen from outer space to Earth. These include man-made rocket parts and natural rocks from outer-space and that have crashed in residential areas.
Biggest Blasts	Some of the biggest known blasts ranging from mighty supernova explosions, to the Big Bang, to the immensely powerful bolide impact in Mexico that is thought to have been millions of times more powerful than the atom bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- its impact was so deadly that it is thought to be the reason for the extinction of dinosaurs.
The Hunt for Ringed Planets	The secrets of the fabulous rings of Saturn and other planets such as Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune. Spectacular visuals of the rings of Saturn that contain ice-boulders moving as fast as 53,000 Miles per hour! A look at the man-made ring of Earth -- the "ring" consisting of over 200 man-made satellites that keep revolving around the Earth.
10 Ways to Destroy the Earth	Top 10 things that could destroy the Earth. Includes strange things such as annihilation with antimatter, getting trapped forever into a micro black hole, getting pushed toward the Sun, losing gravity, etc.
The Search for Cosmic Clusters	Interesting facts about Star Clusters and how stars are formed within them; the difference between Open Clusters and Globular Clusters.
Space Wars	How the military could use satellites to fire missiles from space to the Earth. How such weapons would work, how powerful they would be, and how we would defend ourselves from such weapons made by an enemy country. How ground based lasers could be used to destroy military satellites, and how one satellite could be used to attack another enemy satellite.
Liquid Universe	Some of the strangest places in the solar system -- from oceans of liquid methane, to planet cores of liquid metallic hydrogen, to places where the rain drops are made of liquid iron!
Pulsars & Quasars	Pulsars emit "blinking" beams of electromagnetic radiation. The emissions follow such a regular pattern that the scientists initially thought them to be beacons from extraterrestrial civilizations. Quasars or quasi-stellar radio sources might be the oldest things in the Universe; prior to 1960 the quasars puzzled astronomers because they could not see them even-though radio telescopes could detect them as sources of radio waves.
Science Fiction, Science Fact	Breaking the light speed barrier, teleportation, anti-gravity -- why the scientists have started to take a serious look at these topics which used to be limited in scope to science-fiction.
Extreme Energy	How the law of conservation of energy maintains a perfect balance in the energy of the Universe in spite of extreme nuclear reactions of the stars, bizarre activity of black holes, etc.
[Bonus featurettes]	This set of universe DVDs/Blu-rays contains additional never-aired segments titled, "Meteors, Fire in the Sky", and "Comets, Prophets of Doom" as bonus featurettes.

The Universe Season 4 Sets of DVDs and Blu-ray Disks

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1.5 Universe DVDs - The Universe Season 5

The Universe: The Complete Season Five is available on a set of 2 DVDs or 2 Blu-ray disks with a total run time of 376 minutes.

The Universe Season 5 has 8 episodes (about 44 minutes each). It has dramatic CGI and interviews with expert cosmologists, astronomers and astrophysicists, which reveal the greatest secrets of the Universe.

The topics discussed range from 7 wonders of the Solar System, to scientific facts about time travel.

The Universe Season 5 - A Video Snippet

A snippet of the 7 Wonders of the Solar System episode of Universe Season 5




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The Universe Season 5 - A Summary of its Episodes

Episode Name	Episode Summary
7 Wonders of the Solar System	Most amazing things in the Solar System: Saturn's beautiful rings, the plumes of Enceladus, Olympus Mons volcano of Mars (the tallest mountain in the Solar System), The Great Red Spot of Jupiter, etc.
Mars, The New Evidence	A new look at evidence which indicates that there might have been life present on Mars in the past and that there might still be some life present on Mars (such as bacteria). This evidence comes from the discovery of the remains of rivers and lakes, ice at the poles, and seasonal changes in methane gas on Mars.
Magnetic Storm	Magnetic hurricanes more dangerous than 10,000 nukes produced by the Sun, which could cause communication breakdowns on Earth, because if such a magnetic storm from the Sun reaches near the Earth, the electronic gadgets will not function properly and electricity will also go off.
Time Travel	Einstein's theory of relativity indicates that time travel is possible! A mind-blowing look at the consequences of traveling to the future or to the past, if one day time-travel indeed becomes a reality.
Secrets of the Space Probes	Amazing discoveries that have been made by deep-space probes, and what they might find in the future.
Asteroid Attack	How asteroids colliding with Earth can destroy civilizations. How asteroid impacts might have affected life in the past. Would it be possible to live on an asteroid?
Total Eclipse	How the Sun, the Earth, and the Moon move to create lunar or solar eclipses. How scientists discover new planets (outside the Solar System) when those planets create a partial eclipse of their stars.
Dark Future of the Sun	The Sun is supposed to run out of its fuel in about 5 billion years, but that is not all -- before all of its fuel is exhausted it will bloat into a huge red-giant and burn the Earth and all life on it (if life still exists at that time).

The Universe Season 5 Sets of DVDs and Blu-ray Disks

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