Name: Cosmic Vistas Series
Uploaded: 2024-08-28T20:41:59.000Z
Description: Cosmic discoveries and secrets of our solar system are revealed through breathtaking images and simulations.

Cosmic discoveries and secrets of our solar system are revealed through breathtaking images and simulations.

Alliant Content - Cosmic Frontiers

The Northern Lights reveal details of our planet and sun, and maybe the possibility of life on other planets.

Night Fire

Our view of space is limited by time. Computer simulations can show how galaxies interact over eons,

Virtual Universe

With only a handful of cloudy nights each year, the Atacama desert is a perfect place for watching the stars.

Stargazer's Paradise

A dramatic repair mission gives the Hubble Space Telescope another chance to capture stunning pictures like only it can.

Hubble's Renaissance

Discover the most powerful telescopes on the planet as they search for the mysteries of the universe.

Superscopes

Today, we have instruments that let us perceive wavelengths of light far beyond what our eyes can see.

Cosmic Rainbow

Saturn is the second largest planet and has an astonishing 60 moons in its orbit. Thanks to the Cassini mission, it's also one of the most studied and most photographed planets in our neighborhood.

Seasons of Saturn

With the Dawn missions exploration of the asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres, asteroids are a hot topic. See what these incredible missions have uncovered.

Vesta Unveiled

They key ingredient to life in the universe is water. Until recently we thought Earth was the only place in the solar system to have any water at all. Now that probes are peering around nearby worlds we are finding that is just not the case.

Water Worlds

Gravity has long been a force that has intrigued scientists. Now, for the first time scientists are probing to detect gravity waves in space as well as mapping the gravity patterns of the moon.

Gravity

For more than 25 years the shuttle was our ticket to space, and our laboratory in orbit. Uncover the legacy of this amazing machine, and see what lies ahead.

Science and the Shuttle

Mars sparks our curiosity like no other planet because it is so reachable. Despite having landed there, most of the information we gather is still done by instruments in the planet's orbit.

Landing on Mars

Throughout history, our nightly view of the universe has fueled our collective imagination. When it comes to the Big Bang, not even the most creative work of imagination can rival what science has revealed about the birth of the universe.

The Big Bang

This episode traces our view of the Milky Way, from the mythology of ancient sky watchers to the efforts of scientists to map it from the inside out.

Milky Way

Mercury is one Earth's closest neighbors, but for centuries it eluded astronomer's best efforts to learn its secrets. But that has changed thanks to missions like Mariner and most recently, Messenger.

The Hot Zone

Cosmic rays can tell us much about the universe. They are not simply another form of light, but carriers of information about powerful and unseen processes at work thousands or even millions of light years away.

Cosmic Rays

The Fermi Paradox asks the ultimate question: Given a few reasonable assumptions about the chance of life arising elsewhere in the universe and the distance between the stars, why has an alien civilization not presented itself?

The Fermi Paradox

Take a look at Landsat 8, the advanced planetary explorer with a 900 million dollar price tag! It is designed to peer across multiple wavelengths to reveal complex and ever-changing details that are undetectable by the human eye.

Landsat

In the quest to explore the universe, our greatest tool has been the Hubble Space Telescope.

Eye of the Beholder

When the universe formed, space was white-hot, then darkness lasted 200 million years before light returned.

Painted By Light

Color is essential to astronomy, revealing temperature, chemical composition, and motion of distant objects.

Colour

For most of history, the night sky appeared flat. Our ancestors had no grasp of the universe's true depth.

Cosmic Perspective

The Hubble telescope finds design on a grand scale, zooming in on the spiral galaxies around us.

Grand Design

A galaxy core makes us feel like we're gazing down a well. But this illusion conceals an even deeper truth.

Cosmic Vistas Series

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