NOVA (1974)

Episode Overview

The sun serves as our essential source of light, warmth, and energy, and recent research is shedding light on its fascinating history. Join NOVA on an extraordinary journey to explore the sun’s role in the vast cycle of creation, destruction, and rebirth that defines the age of stars. Discover how stars of various sizes and hues came to inhabit our universe, observe the dramatic finales of stars that explode in supernovae, outshining entire galaxies, and contemplate a future where, billions of years from now, the era of stars gives way to an age of darkness.