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Modern optical microscopes have uncovered a strange world
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Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies

Modern optical microscopeshave uncovered a strange world just a few thousandthsof a...

Modern optical microscopes
have uncovered a strange world just a few thousandths
of a millimetre in scale

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Modern optical microscopes have uncovered a strange world
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just a few thousandths of a millimetre in scale.
Duration
9 seconds
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17
Timestamp in Movie
00:11:01
Uploaded
May 06, 2025
Season
1
Episode
1
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 • E02 Fortunately for us, the magnetic bubble of the heliosphere - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:12
Fortunately for us, the magnetic bubble of the heliosphere
S01 • E01 A world very different from our own. - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:04
A world very different from our own.
S01 • E02 So, in a sense, our heliosphere is like a life raft - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:09
So, in a sense, our heliosphere is like a life raft
S01 • E01 All revealed by a device that is essentially remarkably simple. - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:07
All revealed by a device that is essentially remarkably simp...
S01 • E02 As it pushes its way through the interstellar medium, - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:12
As it pushes its way through the interstellar medium,
S01 • E01 This is a modern but pretty basic compound microscope, - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:20
This is a modern but pretty basic compound microscope,
S01 • E02 It's thought that most if not all stars have heliospheres. - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:05
It's thought that most if not all stars have heliospher...
S01 • E02 Our telescopes have taken photographs of other stars - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:08
Our telescopes have taken photographs of other stars
S01 • E02 Sometimes we can even make out the bow wave. - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:05
Sometimes we can even make out the bow wave.
S01 • E01 The second lens multiplies the magnification of the first. - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:07
The second lens multiplies the magnification of the first.
S01 • E02 In 2020, the European Space Agency launched a mission to the sun, - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:09
In 2020, the European Space Agency launched a mission to the...
S01 • E01 There is, however, a fundamental problem with optical microscopes. - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:06
There is, however, a fundamental problem with optical micros...
S01 • E01 As we increase magnification, - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:07
As we increase magnification,
S01 • E02 And among the scientists who built it - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:08
And among the scientists who built it
S01 • E01 This is because light is a wave, - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:16
This is because light is a wave,
S01 • E02 Half past seven, and we're due to launch in about three and a half - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:07
Half past seven, and we're due to launch in about three...
S01 • E01 So the next step downwards - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:14
So the next step downwards
S01 • E02 You see it launch and then we get this feeling. - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:04
You see it launch and then we get this feeling.
S01 • E02 It's like a vibration of the launch because it's such a powerful event. - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:05
It's like a vibration of the launch because it's s...
S01 • E01 I've found a bit of old technology, - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:06
I've found a bit of old technology,