Outer Space

The show is way out there, way far away. After all, it's in Outer Space. When you look at the night sky on a clear dark night, you can see thousands of stars. There are far more than you could count. And, they are way out there. They are very, very far away. It's about the hardest thing to imagine about space. Let's talk about the nearest star to us, the Sun. If somehow outer space were not an icy cold vacuum with nothing to eat, drink, or breathe, and we could drive there in a car, to get to the Sun at freeway speed of 100 kilometers/hour (61 miles/hour), it would take171 years of driving without stopping to sleep or get gas out in the near nothingness of space. That's just to the Sun. To get to even the closest star, Proxima Centauri, would take 40,000 years. On top of that, most things, billions and billions of stars, are much, much farther away than that! It is just astonishing. How do we know that everything is so far away? We have watched the sky for centuries.

Writing:
  • Bill Nye
  • Michael Gross
  • Kit Boss

Stars:
Release Date: 1993-09-10
Seasons: 1 2 3 4 5
TMDb: 7.1/10
  • Country: US
  • Language: English
  • Runtime: 26

Other episodes for this season

Flight
Episode 1 - Flight
Earth's Crust
Episode 2 - Earth's Crust
Dinosaurs
Episode 3 - Dinosaurs
Skin
Episode 4 - Skin
Buoyancy
Episode 5 - Buoyancy
Gravity
Episode 6 - Gravity
Digestion
Episode 7 - Digestion
Phases of Matter
Episode 8 - Phases of Matter
Biodiversity
Episode 9 - Biodiversity
Simple Machines
Episode 10 - Simple Machines
The Moon
Episode 11 - The Moon
Sound
Episode 12 - Sound
Garbage
Episode 13 - Garbage
Structures
Episode 14 - Structures
Earth's Seasons
Episode 15 - Earth's Seasons
Light & Color
Episode 16 - Light & Color
Cells
Episode 17 - Cells
Electricity
Episode 18 - Electricity
Outer Space
Episode 19 - Outer Space
Eyeball
Episode 20 - Eyeball