Horizon
Season 53 Episode 5 - The End of the Solar System
This is the story of how our solar system will be transformed by the aging sun before coming to a spectacular end in about eight billion years. Astronomers can peer into the far future to predict how it will happen by analysing distant galaxies, stars and even planets in their final moments. In this film, Horizon brings these predictions to life in a peaceful midwestern town that has a giant scale model of the solar system spread out all over the city. As it ages, the sun will bloat into a red giant star, swallowing planets... as well as half the town. The fate of the Earth itself hangs in the balance. How will the solar system end?
Episodes in Season 53
The Immortalist
60 min
Project Greenglow - The Quest for Gravity Control
60 min
The Mystery of Dark Energy
60 min
Oceans of the Solar System
60 min
The End of the Solar System
60 min
Should We Close Our Zoos?
60 min
How to Find Love Online
60 min
Ice Station Antarctica
60 min
Curing Alzheimer's
60 min
E-Cigarettes: Miracle or Menace?
60 min
Why Are We Getting So Fat?
60 min
Sports Doping - Winning At Any Cost?
60 min
Inside CERN
60 min
My Amazing Twin
60 min
The Lost Tribes of Humanity
60 min
The Wildest Weather in the Universe
60 min
