How the Universe Works

Season 2, Episode 4

Episode Title: Megaflares - Cosmic Firestorms

Air Date: 2012-08-01

Overview:

The Universe is a magnetic minefield. Spinning star systems crackle and explode, magnetic monsters rip worlds apart, star-quakes shoot beams of devastating energy, and galactic flamethrowers fire gamma-rays half way across the Universe. Will we find Earth in the firing line?