NOVA · SEASON 8
Cosmic Fire
Episode 14 · 1981-10-18
- Documentary
Episode overview
A NOVA showing the extraordinary discoveries of X-ray astronomy. This new science has revealed that our universe is much stranger and more violent than ever imagined, filled with neutrons, stars, exploding galaxies, quasars and black holes—a universe seething with energy, bursting across vast distances of space and time.
55 minutes
Season 8 episodes
1. Doctors of Nigeria1981-01-06
2. Message in the Rocks1981-01-20
3. The Dead Sea Lives1981-01-27
4. Anatomy of a Volcano1981-02-10
5. The Science of Murder1981-02-17
6. The Malady of Health Care1981-02-24
7. Beyond the Milky Way1981-03-03
8. The Asteroid and the Dinosaur1981-03-10
9. Animal Olympians1981-03-17
10. Resolution on Saturn1981-08-25
11. Computers, Spies and Private Lives1981-09-27
12. Why America Burns1981-10-04
13. The Great Violin Mystery1981-10-11
14. Cosmic Fire1981-10-18
15. Locusts: War Without End1981-10-25
16. Did Darwin Get It Wrong?1981-11-01
17. Artists in the Lab1981-11-15
18. Notes of a Biology Watcher: A Film with Lewis Thomas1981-11-22
19. City Spaces, Human Places1981-11-29
20. Twins1981-12-06
