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The Birth of the Universe - Space – How was the Universe created? Format: DVD 54 minutes (clip 1:20 on rocketrights.tv) Review: Our Universe: Unimaginably vast and inspiringly beautiful, from billions of galaxies and uncountable stars, to our solar system, the planet Earth, the air we breathe, even our bodies - where did it all come from? We travel through space and time to reveal the amazing story of how the universe was born, how it created everything in our world, and eventually how it will die.

What is the Big Bang? How do we know it happened? After nearly 14 billion years the universe has only really just got started. We have a complex cosmos with life on Earth. But how will the universe die? The incredible story of the universe: from creation to destruction. We take you on an amazing journey through the deepest depths of space and dive into the centre of an atom to reveal that we are cosmic individuals.

Film Notes: (use the back if necessary)

The film uses a time clock and temperature analogy:

Clock Temperature Earth’s Description

Student Questions:

Where did the Universe come from? How old is the Universe?

What is the Big Bang? How do we know it happened?

How will the universe die?

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SYNOPSIS

Our Universe: Unimaginably vast and inspiringly beautiful, from billions of galaxies and uncountable stars, to our solar system, the planet Earth, the air we breathe, even our bodies - where did it all come from? We will travel through space and time to reveal the amazing story of how the universe was born, how it created everything in our world, and eventually how it will die.

We reveal how in the 1920s the American Astronomer Edwin Hubble made a revolutionary discovery that we were surrounded by many galaxies not just our own, and even more astounding, that they were speeding away from us. The idea of the Big Bang was born. We travel to New York to see how scientists are recreating the moments after the Big Bang in a giant laboratory. Their discovery is 150 billion times hotter than the sun and lasts for only a fraction of a second. The biggest shock is the early universe was not a gas, but a liquid!

But how do we know that the Big Bang really happened? The film reveals how in 1968 two young scientists unexpectedly found a mysterious signal with a radio telescope and stumbled across one of the greatest scientific discoveries of the century; the faint hiss of the Big Bang from over 13 billion years ago. We find out how the universe made its first elements hydrogen and helium, the building blocks of everything to come.

Hydrogen, the most common element in the universe emerged from the fire of the Big Bang, but where did all the elements come from? We travel to Durham University England to reveal the amazing Millennium Simulation. We reveal how a supercomputer has created the world’s first model of what happened after the Big Bang. It’s called a Cosmic Web and it gave birth to the first stars - our element factories of the future.

The film explores the cosmos through the eye of the famous Hubble Telescope, revealing the mind blowing images of ancient galaxies and stellar nurseries shrouded in towers of cosmic dust. Astronaut Jeff Hoffman tells us how he took on a dare devil rescue expedition to repair the telescope’s faulty lens in 2001 whilst it orbited Earth at 17,500 miles an hour.

So we now have some of the elements needed for our world, but there are many more that still need to be made. We visit the scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee who recreate the conditions inside stars using a giant tower. Dr Tony Mezzacappa and Dr Michael Smith are experts on how supernovae create the heavy elements like Gold for wedding rings. The explosion, hotter than a 1000 suns fires all the new atoms deep into space. We reveal how some of those atoms start to evolve into a giant swirl of gas. Our sun bursts into life and the planets including Earth form.

After nearly 14 billion years the universe has only really just got started. We have a complex cosmos with life on Earth. But how will the universe die? We now takes a quantum leap, billions and billions of years into our distant future. Will our universe end with a Big Crunch, condensing back to where it all came from, or result in a Big Rip; every atom from every galaxy and star will decay back to nothing. We travel to the driest place on Earth, the Atacama Desert in Chile to hunt for a special type of supernova at the Very large Telescope. We find out how scientists are discovering that the universe is rapidly expanding using Type 1a supernova, and they give us a glimpse of our ultimate fate.

The incredible story of the universe: from creation to destruction. This film will take you on an amazing journey through the deepest depths of space and dive into the centre of an atom to reveal that we are cosmic individuals.