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Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe

And the leftover materialforms into planets and moons and asteroids and comets

And the leftover material
forms into planets and moons and asteroids and comets

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And the leftover material forms into planets and moons
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and asteroids and comets.
Duration
6 seconds
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31
Timestamp in Movie
00:32:52
Uploaded
Jul 08, 2025
Season
1
Episode
2
Genres
documentary

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Professor Brian Cox on tour in Australia talks about the life of our universe to scientists and to space-loving audiences.
S01 • E02 But in our part of the Milky Way, - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:06
But in our part of the Milky Way,
S01 • E02 We see that around the, sort of, solar neighbourhood, - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:11
We see that around the, sort of, solar neighbourhood,
S01 • E02 Once you form a star, it dies - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:13
Once you form a star, it dies
S01 • E02 So in order to keep forming stars, - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:06
So in order to keep forming stars,
S01 • E02 So the fact that the rate is dropping... - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:04
So the fact that the rate is dropping...
S01 • E02 ..you said a factor of two from, what, 10 billion years ago to now, - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:10
..you said a factor of two from, what, 10 billion years ago ...
S01 • E02 It's a long time. Not in our lifetimes. - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:04
It's a long time. Not in our lifetimes.
S01 • E02 I think if you do the extrapolation, - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:07
I think if you do the extrapolation,
S01 • E02 Eventually, we will run out of gas to form new stars - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:12
Eventually, we will run out of gas to form new stars
S01 • E02 So, what will our descendants actually see - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:08
So, what will our descendants actually see
S01 • E02 Well, the centre of the galaxy is here, isn't it? - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:05
Well, the centre of the galaxy is here, isn't it?
S01 • E02 Yeah. It's kind of the empty bit of sky up here - Sagittarius. - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:06
Yeah. It's kind of the empty bit of sky up here - Sagit...
S01 • E02 Peer into the centre of the Milky Way - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:09
Peer into the centre of the Milky Way
S01 • E02 Ours is around 4 million times the mass of the sun. - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:06
Ours is around 4 million times the mass of the sun.
S01 • E02 We don't know how these supermassive black holes form, - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:10
We don't know how these supermassive black holes form,
S01 • E02 And when the centre of those stars are more massive - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:15
And when the centre of those stars are more massive
S01 • E02 The gravitational pull is so strong, nothing, even light, can't escape. - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:05
The gravitational pull is so strong, nothing, even light, ca...
S01 • E02 So, then we're left, I suppose, with a dark sky, - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:08
So, then we're left, I suppose, with a dark sky,
S01 • E02 Yeah. ..and, what, fading stellar remnants? - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:04
Yeah. ..and, what, fading stellar remnants?
S01 • E02 Things like faintly glowing cores of long dead stars, - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:10
Things like faintly glowing cores of long dead stars,