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Cosmic Journeys
Season 1 · Episode 37
Star Crash: The Explosion that Transformed Astronomy
0.024mNovember 13, 2017
A startling collision in an ancient galaxy slews Earth's largest telescopes to a spot in the Hydra constellation. Two rapidly spinning neutron stars have violently merged to form a possible black hole. And, for the first time, astronomers see its electromagnetic flash and hear its gravitational thunder as they watch new elements being born.
Episodes
- Episode 1Birth of the Moon
- Episode 2Attack of the Sun
- Episode 3Super Hurricanes
- Episode 4Saturn's Mysterious Moons
- Episode 5The Largest Black Holes in the Universe
- Episode 6How Large Is the Universe?
- Episode 7When Will Time End
- Episode 8The Incredible Journey of Apollo 12
- Episode 9Supermassive Black Hole in the Milky Way Galaxy
- Episode 10Mars: Earth That Never Was
- Episode 11The Search for Earth-like Planets
- Episode 12Voyage to Pandora: First Interstellar Space Flight
- Episode 13Venus: Death of a Planet
- Episode 14Cosmic Energy: Cold Sparks to Black Holes
- Episode 15Is the Universe Infinite?
- Episode 16Alien Planets & Eyeball Earths: The Search for Habitable Planets
- Episode 17The Riddle of AntiMatter
- Episode 18Mysteries of a Dark Universe
- Episode 19Crashing Into the Moon
- Episode 20The Most Powerful Objects in the Universe
- Episode 21Birth of a Black Hole
- Episode 22Plasma Rockets & Solar Storms
- Episode 23Voyager: Journey to the Stars
- Episode 24Earth in 1000 Years
- Episode 25Reinventing Space Flight
- Episode 26Supervolcanoes
- Episode 27Fate of Antarctica
- Episode 28Life: Destiny or Chance?
- Episode 29Interstellar Flight
- Episode 30The Age of Hubble
- Episode 31Glimpsing the Solar System's Birth
- Episode 32Hubble: Universe in Motion
- Episode 33SuperTornado: Anatomy of a MegaDisaster
- Episode 34Day of the Asteroid
- Episode 35Black Holes and the High Energy Universe
- Episode 36The Improbable Rise of Planet Earth
- Episode 37Star Crash: The Explosion that Transformed Astronomy