Stellar

Science and Nature Series / 1 Season

Stellar is a miniseries that explores frontiers in space science and exploration featuring PBS Digital Studios’ most popular (and space loving) creators: Dianna Cowern (Physics Girl), Matt O’Dowd (Space Time) and Joe Hanson (It’s Okay to be Smart). The six episode miniseries is a cosmic road trip with our hosts visiting some of the most important astronomy research labs across America.

7m 48s

The Mysterious Quasar at the Beginning of the Universe

S1 E1 / 7m 48s

In this first episode of the PBSDS mini-series, STELLAR, Space Time host Matt O'Dowd travels to the top of Mauna Kea to visit the Gemini North telescope and see just how they found this ancient Quasar and it’s massive black hole.

"Hearing" Black Holes Collide at LIGO

S1 E2 / 7m 36s

Dianna Cowern (aka Physics Girl) visited LIGO, one of the largest and most sensitive scientific instruments ever created, to find out how they detected gravitational waves for the first time.

In Search of Life on Mars and Jupiter’s Moon

S1 E4 / 6m 15s

While Earth might be the only current confirmed source of life in our solar system, it might not stay that way for long thanks to the upcoming Mars 2020 Rover Mission as well as the Europa Clipper Mission.

Is This Why We Haven’t Found Alien Civilizations?

S1 E5 / 8m 50s

Looking up at the stars makes you wonder: what and who is out there? And why haven’t we seen any other intelligent civilizations given the vast size and age of the universe?

Deciphering The Vast Scale of the Universe

S1 E6 / 9m 11s

One of the fundamental questions humanity has always asked is how big is our Universe? For much of human history, people believed that Planet Earth was the very center of the entire universe. And Earth is pretty big. But compared the rest of the universe, we are infinitesimally small.

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