Ninety-six lectures, divided into ten sections, are designed to provide a non-technical description of modern astronomy, including the structure and evolution of planets, stars, galaxies, and the universe as a whole. Updated edition integrates discoveries reported in the 2003 course and includes recent findings (through mid-2006).

Scientists explore the earth-space boundary zone.

"In distant realms far beyond the familiar solar system, an epic drama is playing out, with a cast list featuring rogue planets, colliding galaxies, and black holes more massive than a billion suns, and each character has its own extraordinary story to tell."

Join astrophysicist and novelist Janna Levin on a mind-blowing voyage to the frontiers of black hole science, which is shining new light on the most powerful and mysterious objects in the universe.

Stars - story of how the first stars formed and how these suns then went on to engineer everythig else that makes up the universe. Galaxies - witnesses the evolution of galaxies from clouds of cold gas floating in the voids of space to the magnificent spirals and ellipticals, collisions and mergers that fill our night sky today.

Explorer craft U.S.S. Palomino encounters a black hole with a ghost ship, the U.S.S. Cygnus, hovering near it. As the scientists take a closer look, their ship is damaged and they must land on the Cygnus for repairs. They encounter electronic robots and ultimately must pit themselves against these machines in order to escape.

See as never before the inner workings of the world, and explore black holes, supernovae, neutron stars, dark energy, and all the titanic forces that make humans what they are.

The feature length presentation is a unique mixture of 'human interest' and science documentary film. It deals with the major new approaches in non-big bang cosmologies and it reveals several deep-rooted theoretical and observational controversies. The story is told by 16 world renown astronomers and cosmologists, such as the legendary Sir Fred Hoyle, and controversial cosmologists Geoffrey Burbidge and Halton Arp, philosopher and telescope designer...