Secrets of the Universe : : how we Discovered the Cosmos

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Discoveries before the telescope -- The seven planets -- Wandering stars -- Stars and constellations -- Our human link with the ice age -- The milky way -- Path of the gods, souls and pilgrims -- The shape of the Earth -- Our planet, a flattened sphere -- The southern constellations -- Hidden stars revealed by the tilting earth -- The sun -- At the centre of the solar system -- Discoveries in the solar system -- Comets -- Disasters, sun-grazers and the 'lady's comet' -- The satellites of Jupiter -- Galileo shatters the crystal spheres -- The phases of Venus -- Revealing the shape of the Copernican system -- Uranus -- William Herschel discovers the first new planet -- Neptune -- The planet discovered by the pen -- Asteroids -- Remnants of the early solar system -- Pluto -- A planet deliberately sought, but not a planet -- And discovered by accident -- The Kuiper belt -- The frontier of the solar system -- Meteors and meteorites -- The sky is falling! -- Meteor showers -- In the middle of the night, stars fell like rain -- The Earth's magnetosphere -- Our defence against the sun -- Comets -- Sandbanks or dirty snowballs? -- The Earth's climate, the seasons and the weather -- Astronomical cycles -- Asteroid impacts on the Earth -- The true origin of craters on Earth -- Origin of the moon -- Neither daughter nor sister of the Earth -- Mercury -- The late heavy bombardment -- The greenhouse effect -- Venus and the Earth -- Mars -- The dying planet -- Water on Mars and Europa -- Evidence for extraterrestrial life? -- Volcanoes on Io -- Linda Morabito makes a chance discovery -- Saturn and the gas giant planets -- Lords of the rings -- Discoveries of the dynamic universe -- Helium -- The cosmic element -- Gravitation -- Determinism and chaos -- Relativity -- The nature of space and time -- Radio waves -- A new window on the universe -- X-rays from space -- The energetic universe -- Variable stars -- Discovery of star systems -- Sirius B and white dwarfs -- Discovery of stellar cinders -- Neutron stars and pulsars -- Lighthouse stars -- Black holes -- A solution looking for a problem -- Discoveries of our galaxy and its stars -- Distances of the stars -- The radiance of a star that was shining years ago -- The discovery of our galaxy -- Stars in an island universe -- Interstellar nebulae -- Stars, molecules, dust and gas -- Star clusters -- Nebulae resolved -- Supernovae -- Origins of the stardust from which we are made -- Supernova 1987a -- The whisper and the vision -- Cepheid variable stars -- Stars' heartbeats that measure the universe -- Exoplanets -- Other worlds beyond ours -- The energy of the sun and stars -- Discovery of nuclear fusion -- The origin of the elements -- Making star stuff -- Inside the sun -- Whispers and rings -- The crab nebula -- A supernova remnant -- Planetary nebulae -- Looking into secret places -- The origin of the stars and the planets -- The solar nebula and proplyds -- Interstellar dust -- Curtains of diamonds and graphite -- Discoveries of the universe and its galaxies -- Hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe -- Galaxies -- Ellipticals, spirals and mergers -- Magellanic clouds -- Our neighbour galaxies -- Quasars -- Active galaxies -- Supermassive black holes -- Monsters at the centres of galaxies -- Black hole in our galaxy -- A dormant monster -- Gamma-ray bursters -- The biggest bangs since the big bang -- Evolving universe -- The past, the present and the future -- The cosmic microwave background -- The after-glow of the big bang -- Darkness at night -- The missing galaxies -- Future discoveries -- Dark matter -- A dark secret to uncover : dark energy -- On the threshold of a profound discovery -- Gravitational waves -- Whispers of neutron stars and the big bang -- Life in the universe -- Are we alone?

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