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Slow Orbit

by Slow Orbit

Slow, quiet lectures about the planets, the moons, the stars and the space between them, told calmly for the late hours. Read by a synthetic voice.

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6. Saturn and Its Rings

Ring-plane crossing: the moment, twice in every Saturn year, when the rings turn edge-on to the Earth and almost vanish. It happened to Galileo in 1612, and again in Marc

Oct 28
50 min

5. Jupiter, the King of the Planets

Galilean moons: from Galileo Galilei, who first saw them in January 1610 and took them for four little stars. A storm wider than the Earth that has been turning for nearl

Oct 28
33 min

4. The Life of the Hubble Space Telescope

Spherical aberration: when a mirror's edge and centre bring light to slightly different points, every star gets a soft halo. Hubble's mirror had it, by one fiftieth of th

Oct 28
18 min

3. Mars

The red planet, slowly: its rusted dust and blue sunsets, the greatest volcano and canyon in the Solar System, the old riverbeds, two small moons, and the patient machine

Oct 28
15 min

2. The Moon

Our only natural companion: its one face, its seas of old lava, its long days and nights, the tides, the visitors who walked there, and the mirrors they left behind. Read

Oct 28
13 min

1. The Solar System

A slow journey outward from the Sun, past each planet in turn, to the edge of the Solar System. Read by a synthetic voice. Script written and fact-checked by the show's t

Oct 28
29 min

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