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How the Universe Works
Season 2 · Episode 5
Extreme Orbits - Clockwork and Creation
9.042mAugust 8, 2012
We owe our existence to the stability of earth's orbit. But we are the freaks: everywhere else we look we find orbits are chaotic, unstable, and violent. Yet on the very largest scale, orbits are also a creative force, even constructing the fabric of the universe itself.
Episodes
- Episode 1Volcanoes - The Furnaces of Life
- Episode 2Megastorms - The Winds of Creation
- Episode 3Exoplanets - Planets from Hell
- Episode 4Megaflares - Cosmic Firestorms
- Episode 5Extreme Orbits - Clockwork and Creation
- Episode 6Comets - Frozen Wanderers
- Episode 7Asteroids - Worlds That Never Were
- Episode 8Birth of the Earth