Beyond the Milky Way

Mar 03, 1981 on PBS at 9:00 PM

Summary

Sophisticated instruments used by astronomers enable earthlings to see beyond what was once the cloudy barrier of the Milky Way, to a universe of perhaps 100 billion other galaxies. NOVA takes a trip into outer space to see these clusters which are a... (more)s old as time and several million light years away.

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