NOVA · SEASON 5
A Whisper from Space
Episode 20 · 1978-06-21
- Documentary
Episode overview
In 1965, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, two radio astronomers at Bell Telephone Laboratories, discovered faint, but ever-present, microwave signals from space—the most ancient and most distant signals detected by man: the oldest "fossils" in the universe. NOVA explores the current surge of cosmological discovery that continues to aid scientists in the "cosmic archaeology" of digging into the history of the universe.
55 minutes
Season 5 episodes
1. In The Event of Catastrophe1978-01-04
2. The Green Machine1978-01-11
3. Blueprints in the Bloodstream1978-01-18
4. One Small Step1978-01-25
5. The Final Frontier1978-02-01
6. BaMiki BaNdula: Children of the Forest1978-02-15
7. Trial of Denton Cooley1978-02-22
8. The Great Wine Revolution1978-03-01
9. The Case of the Ancient Astronauts1978-03-08
10. The Mind Machines1978-03-22
11. Icarus' Children1978-03-29
12. Still Waters1978-04-12
13. Battle for the Acropolis1978-04-19
14. The Road to Happiness. : The Life and Times of Henry Ford1978-05-03
15. Laser : Light of the 21st Century1978-05-10
16. Insect Alternative1978-05-24
17. The Desert's Edge1978-05-31
18. The Tsetse Trap1978-06-07
19. Memories From Eden1978-06-14
20. A Whisper from Space1978-06-21
21. Alaska: The Closing Frontier1978-06-28
