Season 1 (Winter)

01 Week 1: The Journey Begins (New Year) Episode 118th May 1997 Why it is cold when the Earth is closest to the sun. Why we see Venus in the morning. The planets are close, the stars unreachable. 02 Week 2: Travelling in the Solar System (Early January) Episode 218th May 1997 Day and Night. A gigantic Sun with tiny planets. A look at the Zodiac. The solar system is the present; the stars are the past. 03 Week 3: The Moon, Our Companion (Mid-January) Episode 318th May 1997 The Sun is on time but the Moon is late. Why we see the Moon as a crescent. The half-moon crosses the Earth's orbit. Where the Moon came from. The Moon: Delay in space and Time. 04 Week 4: The Full Moon (Late January) Episode 418th May 1997 Discovering Mercury. Distant moons of other planets. Why we always see the same side of the Moon. Why we see the Sun so low but the Moon so high. 05 Week 5: Earth's Rotation (January/February) Episode 518th May 1997 Earth's Rotation. The Moon shows us where Mars is. Copernicus: The Earth in orbit. Why the Earth turns. Crossing time zones. 06 Week 6: Copernicus and Kepler (Early February) Episode 618th May 1997 Hidden planets. Kepler discovers the planets' timetable. The Earth moves more quickly in Winter. Earth overtakes Mars. Why we have two tides every day. 07 Week 7: Gravity (Early/Mid-February) Episode 718th May 1997 Why the Earth is round. Newton's apple. Why the Earth does not fall into the Sun. Three minutes more Sun every day. Sundials and the Earth's axis. Comets. 08 Week 8: The Stars (Mid-February) Episode 818th May 1997 Columbus and the Pole Star. Earth wobbles over the centuries. The imaginary 'heavenly vault'. The Sun, our star. Infinitely large to infinitely small. 09 Week 9: The Calendar (Late February) Episode 918th May 1997 Leap Days: The Earth misses a quarter of a day. Gregorian and Orthodox calendars. Solar and lunar calendars. Solid and gaseous planets. 10 Week 10: Waning Moon and Solar Eclipses (Early March) Episode 1018th May 1997 The half-moon shows where we are going. Where the stars go during the day. The Moon and the planets: The Sun's invisible companions. The Moon's shadow on the Earth: Solar Eclipses. 11 Week 11: Eclipses and Occultations (Mid-March) Episode 1118th May 1997 Annular solar eclipses. Partial solar eclipses. The Moon eclipsed in Earth's shadow. Occultation of Aldebaran.