Understanding the Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy

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# Air Date Episode Name Watched?
E1 A Grand Tour of the Cosmos
E2 The Rainbow Connection
E3 Sunrise, Sunset
E4 Bright Objects in the Night Sky
E5 Fainter Phenomena in the Night Sky
E6 Our Sky Through Binoculars and Telescopes
E7 The Celestial Sphere
E8 The Reason for the Seasons
E9 Lunar Phases and Eerie Lunar Eclipses
E10 Glorious Total Solar Eclipses
E11 More Eclipse Tales
E12 Early Studies of the Solar System
E13 The Geocentric Universe
E14 Galileo and the Copernican Revolution
E15 Refinements to the Heliocentric Model
E16 On the Shoulders of Giants
E17 Surveying Space and Time
E18 Scale Models of the Universe
E19 Light: The Supreme Informant
E20 The Wave-Particle Duality of Light
E21 The Colors of Stars
E22 The Fingerprints of Atoms
E23 Modern Telescopes
E24 A Better Set of Eyes
E25 Our Sun, the Nearest Star
E26 The Earth, Third Rock from the Sun
E27 Our Moon, Earth's Nearest Neighbor
E28 Mercury and Venus
E28 Mercury and Venus
E29 Of Mars and Martians
E30 Jupiter and Its Amazing Moons
E31 Magnificent Saturn
E32 Uranus and Neptune, the Small Giants
E33 Pluto and Its Cousins
E34 Asteroids and Dwarf Planets
E35 Comets: Gorgeous Primordial Snowballs
E36 Catastrophic Collisions
E37 The Formation of Planetary Systems
E38 The Quest for Other Planetary Systems
E39 Extra-Solar Planets Galore!
E40 Life Beyond the Earth
E41 The Search for Extraterrestrials
E42 Special Relativity and Interstellar Travel
E43 Stars: Distant Suns
E44 The Intrinsic Brightnesses of Stars
E45 The Diverse Sizes of Stars
E46 Binary Stars and Stellar Masses
E47 Star Clusters, Ages, and Remote Distances
E48 How Stars Shine: Nature's Nuclear Reactors
E49 Solar Neutrinos: Probes of the Sun's Core
E50 Brown Dwarfs and Free-Floating Planets
E51 Our Sun's Brilliant Future
E52 White Dwarfs and Nova Eruptions
E53 Exploding Stars: Celestial Fireworks!
E54 White Dwarf Supernovae: Stealing to Explode
E55 Core-Collapse Supernovae: Gravity Wins
E56 The Brightest Supernova in Nearly 400 Years
E57 The Corpses of Massive Stars
E58 Einstein's General Theory of Relativity
E59 Warping of Space and Time
E60 Black Holes: Abandon Hope, Ye Who Enter
E61 The Quest for Black Holes
E62 Imagining the Journey to a Black Hole
E63 Wormholes: Gateways to Other Universes?
E64 Quantum Physics and Black-Hole Evaporation
E65 Enigmatic Gamma-Ray Bursts
E66 Birth Cries of Black Holes
E67 Our Home: The Milky Way Galaxy
E68 Structure of the Milky Way Galaxy
E69 Other Galaxies: "Island Universes"
E70 The Dark Side of Matter
E71 Cosmology: The Really Big Picture
E72 Expansion of the Universe and the Big Bang
E73 Searching for Distant Galaxies
E74 The Evolution of Galaxies
E75 Active Galaxies and Quasars
E76 Cosmic Powerhouses of the Distant Past
E77 Supermassive Black Holes
E78 Feeding the Monster
E79 The Paradox of the Dark Night Sky
E80 The Age of the Universe
E81 When Geometry is Destiny
E82 The Mass Density of the Universe
E83 Einstein's Biggest Blunder?
E84 The Afterglow of the Big Bang
E85 Ripples in the Cosmic Background Radiation
E86 The Stuff of the Cosmos
E87 Dark Energy: Quantum Fluctuations?
E88 Dark Energy: Quintessence?
E89 Grand Unification & Theories of Everything
E90 Searching for Hidden Dimensions
E91 The Shape, Size, and Fate of the Universe
E92 In the Beginning
E93 The Inflationary Universe
E94 The Ultimate Free Lunch?
E95 A Universe of Universes
E96 Reflections on Life and the Cosmos
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