The universe is not perfect, it is full of elliptical orbits. I bet that something you didn't know. Find out how this knowledge came to be fact.

William Herschel was a classical trained musician who changed to astronomy to study the stars. He became the greatest telescope maker of his time and discovered that the Milky Way is full of stars.

This clip gives a preview of 100 Greatest Discoveries, a show about sciencce breakthroughs.

Scientist are smart but did you know that they used radio waves to find a black whole four times bigger than the sun on the other side of the Milky Way. Cool!

A great discovery at the time, the earth is not the center of the universe but the sun is. Find out how this discovery came to be.

Gamma Bursts are very big explosions, devastating, and they happen in space all the time. Some are so big we can see them light years a way.

Penicillin was one of medical sciences biggest breakthroughs.

Pasteur discovered how to "pasteurize" to keep things germ free.

Scientists are surprised to learn that the universe is speeding up.

The site of the Burgess Shale was created by an underwater mudflow entombing organisms for hundreds of millions of years

The discovery that a healthy diet with the necessary vitamins prevented many diseases without really that much effort.

Cancer cells may already be inside us on the cellular level, just waiting to be activated.

Bernard Brunhes' study of volcanic eruptions lead to the discovery of the earth's magnetic field reversal.

Early in the eighteenth century scientists first began to classify animals.

Diabetes would still take countless lives if it weren't for this unique drug.

The underground intense heat that powers old faithful, is akin to the type of conditions that according to scientists may have began life

Upon the discovery of oxygen, chemists wanted to know all about it. So they study it in every way and perfecting their studying habits.

The discovery of radiation was a major breakthrough in chemistry and scientist wanted to know all about it.

After the discovery of atoms chemist discovered that atoms only combined in a certain way.

Inorganic or organic does not matter it all atoms, and atoms combine with each other.

Electricity was the new fire of its day and scientist of all kinds were finding out ways to use it.

Plastics was a great discovery, chemist could now reproduce products with better quality with minimal in pack to the earth.

The discovery of atoms and their atomic weight. A break through in chemistry giving scientist a written form of elements and their relationship with each other.

Chemist August Kekule created a written model to visualize the chemical structure of atoms.

The discovery that every atom, when burned, has a different color. Scientist could now know what was in a subject by the color it burned.

C.R.T. is an instrument that showed that there was an invisible force, electrons, that exist in our world and by using magnets you could bend that force.

The discovery of the periodic table gave scientist a way to teach the element so that students could understand it better.

Chemists wanted to understand the atom. How it is made and how it interacts with other atoms.

The discovery of radiation, a big break through, found uses for them all over world and out of this world. Be careful though radiation can kill.

Ice hockey is used to explain Sir Isaac Newton's Laws of Motion.

Darwin's extensive studies in the Galapagos Islands lead to his theory of natural selection, adaptation, and extinction.

Einstein's study of relativity lead to the now famous equation e=mc squared.