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Network: Science
Episode Runtime: 42 min.
Season Runtime: 4494 min.
Status: Returning Series
Certification: TV-PG

How the Universe Works (2010)

Season 2 (July 11, 2012, midnight)

A users' guide to the cosmos, from the Big Bang to galaxies, stars, planets and moons: where did it all come from and how does it all fit together? A primer for anyone who has ever looked up at the night sky and wondered.

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How the Universe Works (2010)

Season 2 (July 11, 2012, midnight)

A users' guide to the cosmos, from the Big Bang to galaxies, stars, planets and moons: where did it all come from and how does it all fit together? A primer for anyone who has ever looked up at the night sky and wondered.

85
84
IMDb 4577
8.9
/7486/
Trakt
85
/427/
TMDb
82
/111/
Tomatoes
Mike Rowe
Mike Rowe
Narrator
Erik Dellums
Erik Dellums
Lawrence Krauss
Lawrence Krauss
Michio Kaku
Michio Kaku
Michelle Thaller
Michelle Thaller
Phil Plait
Phil Plait
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Richard Lintern
Richard Lintern

July 11, 2012, midnight 6.5

S2E1 - Volcanoes - The Furnaces of Life

Are we alone in the Universe? What makes Earth so different? Part of the answer is our volcanoes. without them we would not be here either. Today we are discovering volcanoes on alien worlds. Are these worlds where, tomorrow, we might find life?
July 18, 2012, midnight 6.5

S2E2 - Megastorms - The Winds of Creation

Destructive weather forces are symptoms of Earth's creative energy. In our quest to discover if we are alone in the universe, we shouldn't just look for worlds, we should look for weather; find that megastorm, and maybe we will find alien life.
July 25, 2012, midnight 7.0

S2E3 - Exoplanets - Planets from Hell

We once thought that the only planets were in our solar system. We have found many other planets but they are nothing like we expected, from deep-frozen, toxic snowballs, to scorched and boiling nightmares. Is every planet out there a planet fom Hell?
Aug. 1, 2012, midnight 7.5

S2E4 - Megaflares - Cosmic Firestorms

The Universe is a magnetic minefield. Spinning star systems crackle and explode, magnetic monsters rip worlds apart, star-quakes shoot beams of devastating energy, and galactic flamethrowers fire gamma-rays half way across the Universe. Will we find Earth in the firing line?
Aug. 8, 2012, midnight 9.0

S2E5 - Extreme Orbits - Clockwork and Creation

We owe our existence to the stability of earth's orbit. But we are the freaks: everywhere else we look we find orbits are chaotic, unstable, and violent. Yet on the very largest scale, orbits are also a creative force, even constructing the fabric of the universe itself.
Aug. 15, 2012, midnight 6.0

S2E6 - Comets - Frozen Wanderers

As time machines from the early universe, comets could hold the key to unlock the secrets of the cosmos, and may even be the origin of life itself. In this episode, we learn that comets are even more mysterious and fascinating than we had ever imagined.
Aug. 22, 2012, midnight 9.0

S2E7 - Asteroids - Worlds That Never Were

Asteroids wiped out the dinosaurs and may be back for us but they also built the Earth and may have brought life to its barren surface. Asteroids will shape our future as much as our past and scientists are striving to unlock their secrets.
Aug. 29, 2012, midnight 5.0

S2E8 - Birth of the Earth

The Earth was formed by a series of cataclysms without which we would not exist. Could the same events have created other earth-like planets elsewhere in the Universe inhabited by creatures like us?
Discovery+ Amazon Channel HBO Max Amazon Channel Max trailer
Network: Science
Episode Runtime: 42 min.
Season Runtime: 4494 min.
Released: April 26, 2010
Last Air Date: April 2, 2023, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: TV-PG / 10+

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