Origins : fourteen billion years of cosmic evolution
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[United States] : WGBH Boston Video, 2004.
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DVD
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Status
Southside - Media
DVD 523.1 Ori
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Published
[United States] : WGBH Boston Video, 2004.
Language
English
UPC
783421380394

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General Note
Originally broadcast on NOVA.
General Note
Special DVD features include: printable materials for educators; access to the Origins web site; closed captions; and described video for the visually impaired.
Creation/Production Credits
Earth is born and How life began narration written and produced by Joseph McMaster ; produced and directed by Alice Harper ; Where are the aliens written, produced and directed by Julia Cort and Larry Klein ; Back to the beginning edited by Simon Holland ; written, produced, directed by Thomas Levenson.
Participants/Performers
Hosted and narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Description
Who would have predicted that a hot spot left over from the Big Bang would eventually lead to our galaxy, the solar system, the Earth, - and to us? Origins explores how the universe and our planet began amid chaos and eventually gave birth to the first stirrings of life. Join cutting-dege scientists on a voyage deep into the Earth to find analogs to the earliest life on our planet, and travel a million miles from Earth with a space probe designed to capture the earliest observable "snapshot" of the Big Bang. Then watch as astronomers test an ingenious new way to detect distant planets that may harbor life, and discover that every atom in our bodies, and practically every bit of matter in the Earth, was made in the heart of stars. Hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson (shown), Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, Origins presents startling new findings that attempt to explain just how Earth, life, and the universe all began. - Container.
System Details
DVD format, region 1, letterboxed; Dolby Digital.
Language
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
Linking Entry Complexity
Companion to book: Origins: fourteen billion years of cosmic evolution.

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