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Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies

For example, here's the Smalland Large Magellanic Clouds

For example, here's the Small
and Large Magellanic Clouds

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For example, here's the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds.
Duration
4 seconds
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20
Timestamp in Movie
00:48:34
Uploaded
May 06, 2025
Season
1
Episode
2
Genres
documentary

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In this mind-bending series, Jim Al-Khalili explores the vast range of size in the universe, from tiny atoms to gigantic, interconnected galaxies.
S01 • E01 Talk to me through what happened on that night, - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:22
Talk to me through what happened on that night,
S01 • E02 These are dwarf galaxies that were studied by Henrietta Swan Leavitt. - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:05
These are dwarf galaxies that were studied by Henrietta Swan...
S01 • E02 They're about 200,000 light years away. - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:04
They're about 200,000 light years away.
S01 • E02 Over here is the giant Andromeda galaxy, - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:07
Over here is the giant Andromeda galaxy,
S01 • E02 Our local group stretches up to ten million light years across, - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:12
Our local group stretches up to ten million light years acro...
S01 • E01 You can take this piece of graphite... - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:06
You can take this piece of graphite...
S01 • E02 So let's see what the whole of Laniakea looks like. - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:05
So let's see what the whole of Laniakea looks like.
S01 • E01 ..and without much trouble... - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:04
..and without much trouble...
S01 • E01 You can, of course, make it thinner by repeating this procedure. - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:06
You can, of course, make it thinner by repeating this proced...
S01 • E01 But if you shine lights through, - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:10
But if you shine lights through,
S01 • E02 And each one of these lines is a pathway that they follow. - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:05
And each one of these lines is a pathway that they follow.
S01 • E01 Because being reasonably well educated, - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:12
Because being reasonably well educated,
S01 • E02 Our Milky Way and all the other galaxies in our local group - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:07
Our Milky Way and all the other galaxies in our local group
S01 • E01 Probably initially those were ten layers thick - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:08
Probably initially those were ten layers thick
S01 • E02 All of the galaxies are being pulled by incredible gravitational forces - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:08
All of the galaxies are being pulled by incredible gravitati...
S01 • E02 They're all moving towards a central mass - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:06
They're all moving towards a central mass
S01 • E01 It's hard to overstate just how excited scientists - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:10
It's hard to overstate just how excited scientists
S01 • E02 The Great Attractor is still a mystery, - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:12
The Great Attractor is still a mystery,
S01 • E01 It's just a single flat sheet of carbon atoms all bonded together. - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:06
It's just a single flat sheet of carbon atoms all bonde...
S01 • E01 But that would be really under-selling it - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:13
But that would be really under-selling it