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How the Universe Works Season 9 Episodes
Season 9 Episode Guide
11 Episodes 2021 - 2021
Episode 1
Journey to a Black Hole
Mon, Mar 11, 2019 45 mins
Cutting-edge technology is revealing thousands of exoplanets throughout the universe and experts uncover if these worlds are similar enough to Earth to be a second home for humanity.
Episode 2
Mission to a Comet
Wed, Mar 31, 2021 42 mins
The Rosetta mission was a ground-breaking expedition to land on a comet for the first time; special access reveals what this cutting-edge journey discovered and how these mysterious objects helped create life on Earth.
Episode 3
Secrets of the Sun
Wed, Apr 7, 2021 45 mins
A brand-new NASA mission to the Sun reveals cutting-edge discoveries about Earth's star; as the Parker Solar Probe dives through the Sun's atmosphere, what it finds challenges everything we know about this strange place.
Episode 4
Aliens Of The Microcosmos
Wed, Apr 14, 2021 45 mins
New discoveries reveal how bacteria, viruses and other alien micro-organisms built life on Earth and influence humanity's future in the cosmos.
Episode 5
Curse of the White Dwarf
Wed, Apr 21, 2021 45 mins
White dwarfs are small dead stars that are capable of exploding into supernovas and destroying planets.
Episode 6
War of the Galaxies
Wed, Apr 28, 2021 60 mins
Galaxies are locked in continual combat across the universe, and the own Milky Way will face its biggest opponent ever, the Andromeda Galaxy, in a titanic and deadly struggle that could create a new and unrecognizable super galaxy.
Episode 7
The Next Supernova
Wed, May 5, 2021 42 mins
The search is on to locate which star could be next to explode into a supernova, a stellar detonation powerful enough to destroy all life on Earth.
Episode 8
Secret Lives of Neutrinos
Wed, May 12, 2021 60 mins
Neutrinos are the most mysterious particles in the universe, and they power some of the most explosive events in the cosmos. New discoveries reveal how these ghosts pass through objects undetected and why they could be the reason humans exist.
Episode 9
Birth of the Monster Black Holes
Wed, May 19, 2021 60 mins
New discoveries reveal an astonishing supermassive black hole that was born during the earliest days of the cosmos, and finding out how this giant grew so large so quickly may help to explain the very formation of the universe itself.
Episode 10
Gravitational Waves Revealed
Wed, May 26, 2021 45 mins
The team tells the story of where mankind and everything else came from.
Episode 11
Mystery of Alien Worlds
Wed, Jun 2, 2021 60 mins
An explosion in the discovery of exoplanets challenges everything we know about our universe; experts use cutting-edge astronomy to investigate these mysterious alien worlds and how they defy the laws of physics.
