How the Universe Works · SEASON 2

Megaflares - Cosmic Firestorms

Episode 4 · 2012-08-01

★ 7.7
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Season 2Episode 4★ 7.7/10
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Episode overview

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?

42 minutes

Season 2 episodes

1. Volcanoes - The Furnaces of Life2012-07-11 2. Megastorms - The Winds of Creation2012-07-18 3. Exoplanets - Planets from Hell2012-07-25 4. Megaflares - Cosmic Firestorms2012-08-01 5. Extreme Orbits - Clockwork and Creation2012-08-08 6. Comets - Frozen Wanderers2012-08-15 7. Asteroids - Worlds That Never Were2012-08-22 8. Birth of the Earth2012-08-29