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Comets

Season 2 • Episode 6

We follow the odyssey of a comet as it sails through space, watching every move as it evolves from a chunk of ice and rock into an active nucleus engulfed in a gaseous haze. What we learn is a revelation; comets are more mysterious than we imagined.

43 min|TV-G|Premiered 08/16/2012

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