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36. Outer Space














Table of Contents | 1. Earth | 2. The Origin of Life and Evolution of Man | 3. Civilisation | 4. Fertile Crescent | 5. Egypt | 6. Indus Valley | 7. Yellow River (Haung He/Huang Ho) | 8. Hittites, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Assyrians | 9. New World (B. C./Pre-Columban) | 10. Greeks and Persians | 11. Rome ( - B. C. - A. D. 96) | 12. The Messiah/Christus, Jesus, James, Simon/Peter, Saul/Paul | 13. Rome ( - A. D. 275) | 14. Rome and Byzantium (Nova Roma) | 15. Islam | 16. Charlemagne | 17. Vikings | 18. Turks, Crusaders, Mongols, Moors, Explorers and Conquistadors | 19. Reformation, Enlightenment (1300s -1700s) | 20. Mid-1700s - early 1900s | 21. The Great War | 22. Inter-War Years | 23. The War in Europe and Africa | 24. Second World War | 25. War in the Pacific | 26. Defeating the Axis in Europe and Africa | 27. End of Japanese Imperialism | 28. Ending the War | 29. Conquest of Space | 30. Averting Nuclear War | 31. End of Empire | 32. Man on the Moon | 33. Arms Race and Limitation | 34. Lifting the Iron Curtain | 35. The 21st Century | 36. Outer Space | 37. | 42.





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Outer Space
 
 
A nearby group of galaxies, like our own Local Group, called Hikson, 60 million light years away
 
 
 
 




PLANET OF THE APES

A novel by Pierre Boulle

1963

Movie with Charlton Heston

1968

1:53:02

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9n6wyo





Gustav Holst

The Planets, Op. 32

1. Mars, the Bringer of War (00:00 - 07:21)
2. Venus, the Bringer of Peace (07:22 - 15:59);
3. Mercury, the Winged Messenger (16:00 - 19:51);
4. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity (19:52 - 27:49);
5. Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age (27:50 - 36:31);
6. Uranus, the Magician (36:32 - 42:14)
7. Neptune, the Mystic (42:15 - 49:01)

1914 / 1916

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHVsszW7Nds






How we found Earth's location in the Milky Way

Documentary

12:29

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5M_grieetw





Edwin Hubble and the Expanding Universe

Episode from the documentary series

Great Moments in Science and Technology

14:34

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7knav5DvEL0




The Ever Expanding Universe

Hunting the Edge of Space

Nova documentary series

Part 2

The discovery that Andromeda is a distant galaxy
separate from the Milky Way

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xq0f69




Journey to the Edge of the Solar System

Documentary

00:00 - Introduction
03:42 - Sun
10:53 - Mercury
14:40 - Venus
18:24 - Earth
22:35 - Mars
28:52 - Asteroid Belt
33:02 - Jupiter
38:08 - Saturn
44:03 - Uranus
47:25 - Neptune
52:37 - Kuiper Belt
57:55 - Scattered Disk
01:03:12 - Oort Cloud
01:08:16 - Heliosphere
01:13:05 - Spacecraft
01:21:15 - Interstellar Space

2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUMqKhrsRL4


JOURNEY THROUGH THE UNIVERSE

Documentary

1:28:10

1:00 The Moon
2:50 Venus
6:05 Mercury
7:20 Sun
11:30 A comet
14:00 Mars
22:00 The asteroid belt
23:16 Jupiter
25:55 Moon (Io)
26:55 Moon (Europa)
28:42 Saturn
31:00 Moon (Titan)
34:00 Uranus
34:50 Neptune
35:38 Moon (Triton)
37:12 Pluto
37:55 Sedna
38:12 Voyager 1, space probe launched in 1977
39:36 Comets
40:45 Interstellar Space
41:50 Alpha Centauri
43:20 Epsilon Eridani
45:06 Star Gliese 581
45:25 Gliese 581c
47:37 Bellerophon
49:00 Twin Stars of Algol
50:50 Betelgeuse
51:50 Orion's Dark Cloud (Nebula)
56:50 White Dwarf
58:00 Crab Nebula
59:10 Pulsar
1:01:10 Black Hole
1:04:00 The Pillars of Creation
1:06:52 Hypernova / Superluminous Supernova
1:09:55 Great Cluster
1:11:50 Intergalactic Space
1:12:40 Dark Matter
1:14:00 Fireball
1:15:37 Andromeda, the nearest major galaxy
1:16:15 Galaxy Collision/Explosion
1:18:55 Quasar
1:21:51 Young galaxies
1:24:00 Big Bang

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO3Q4bRQZ3k&t=66s