PBS Space Time

tv show

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409 total episodes

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12 seasons

First Aired February 11, 2015

Overview

Space Time explores the outer reaches of space, the craziness of astrophysics, the possibilities of sci-fi, and anything else you can think of beyond Planet Earth.

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How An Extreme New Star Could Change All Cosmology

Season 2021 - Episode 22 - 0h 19m

Air Date

August 03, 2021

Overview

A new white dwarf has been discovered (poetically named: ZTF J1901+1458) that’s doing some stuff that no white dwarf should ever be able to do. In fact, it has multiple properties that are so extreme that it almost certainly did NOT form in the way that we thought all white dwarfs formed. This one peculiar point of faint light may change our understanding of not just white dwarfs, but of all cosmology.