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Solar System

2024 Ended 58m episodes

8.3/10 29 votes

Documentary

Voyage across the solar system with Professor Brian Cox and explore the new discoveries, natural wonders and strange mysteries on the diverse worlds that orbit the sun.

Cast:: Brian Cox
Language:: English
Country:: United Kingdom, United States of America
Network:: BBC Two

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E01

Episode 1

★ 7.4

Volcano Worlds

2024-10-07 · 59m

Professor Brian Cox explores planets and moons covered in volcanoes. He encounters alien landscapes bursting with fire and ice - eruptions so violent they reach into space.

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E02

Episode 2

★ 7.4

Dark Worlds

2024-10-14 · 58m

Professor Brian Cox explores the solar system's hidden realms, between and beyond the planets, where countless worlds lie hiding in the darkness.

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E03

Episode 3

★ 6.8

Storm Worlds

2024-10-21 · 58m

Professor Brian Cox explores the solar system's wildest weather, encountering powerful lightning, strange metallic frosts and monsoon rains on a moon a billion kilometres from Earth.

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E04

Episode 4

★ 8.5

Ice Worlds

2024-10-28 · 58m

Professor Brian Cox explores the solar system's ice giants, frozen moons and worlds where ice behaves in unimaginable ways.

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E05

Episode 5

★ 7.4

Strange Worlds

2024-11-04 · 58m

Professor Brian Cox explores the solar system's misfits and oddballs and investigates the forces that sculpted the bizarre features on these strange worlds.

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