Today on Far Future Horizons we present the eighth episode of the acclaimed documentary series Engineering an Empire that highlights the engineering and architectural achievements of some of history’s greatest civilizations and the empires they created. This instalment of Engineering an Empire takes us to Russia. At the height of its power, the Russian Empire … Read more
Destruction Rains Down on New York City Today on Far Future Horizons we present another exciting episode of The Universe: Ancient Mysteries Solved. In this installment of The Universe: Ancient Mysteries Solved we will examine Visions of the Apocalypse. Our World’s Cataclysmic End How will our planet and universe meet its ultimate end? Hell fires, endless winters, … Read more
The Helix Nebula (NGC 7293) aka “The Eye of God” Today on Far Future Horizons we present another exciting episode of The Universe: Ancient Mysteries Solved. In this installment of The Universe: Ancient Mysteries Solved we will examine “The Eye of God” and other strange shapes we encounter in the heavens. Could the strange shapes of … Read more
Today on Far Future Horizons we present another exciting episode of The Universe: Ancient Mysteries Solved. This series of documentaries is a spinoff of the acclaimed History Channel documentary series The Universe. Each episode will be taking us on another exciting foray into the exciting field of Archaeoastronomy. In this installment of The Universe: Ancient … Read more
Today on Far Future Horizons we present another exciting episode of “Through the Wormhole” hosted by veteran actor Morgan Freeman. This installment will explore the shadowy universe of “dark matter”. Mirror Matter Asteroid Impacting the Earth When we look up into the sky it appears we live in a universe that is filled with light. … Read more
Today on Far Future Horizons we present the second instalment of a three part BBC documentary series titled “Chemistry: A Volatile History” hosted by Professor Jim Al-Khalili. In the second episode of this exciting series Professor Al-Khalili looks at the 19th century chemists who struggled to impose an order on the apparently random world of … Read more
Today on Far Future Horizons we go in search of habitable worlds within our galaxy. Thus far, in this great age of planet hunting, we have yet to find anything like our solar system with rocky inner worlds in neat circular orbits, and evenly spaced Jovian gas giants on the periphery. Instead, astronomers have glimpsed … Read more
Today on Far Future Horizons we present the first episode of the acclaimed documentary series The Blue Planet narrated by David Attenborough. The first instalment of The Blue Planet looks at how ocean life is regulated around the globe by currents and the varying position of the sun. Near a Pacific seamount, there is a … Read more
Satellite view of Northwest Europe – showing Britain as an Island (the land that once joined Britain to the rest of Europe has been destroyed by a tsunami) Melting ice, rising seas and a huge tsunami heads for the coast. These are not headlines from the twenty first century. But they are stories from prehistory. … Read more
Today on Far Future Horizons we explore the fascinating story of the birth of stars and how their creation changed the cosmos forever, eventually leading to planets, life and, at least in our nook of the universe, the emergence of sentience itself. If we could watch the night sky over a period of millions of years, we would … Read more