Wonders of the Universe

After the Wonders of the Solar System Professor Brian Cox returns to BBC Two with yet a more magnificent story: The Wonders of the Universe.

Starting on March 6^th, this series takes you on a journey leading to the far reaches of the universe. How everything started 13.7 billion years ago. How our Sun came into being and laid the foundation for life on Earth and how our star will eventually die. How other stars will illuminate the universe long after our Sun is gone. How those stars will remain mere little white dwarfs for ages after they have lost their shining brightness. How these will be swallowed by gigantic black holes and yet again they themselves, after trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions … of years will vanish and everything in the universe will come to nothingness.

DVD and blu-ray available: The Wonders Of The Universe, BBC, 2011.