''Strip the Cosmos'' is a documentary science television series narrated by

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. Aired by the

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, it premiered on November 12, 2014.

Content

''Strip The Cosmos'' builds upon a concept introduced in an earlier show, ''

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'' — in which layers of a city were "stripped" away with

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to reveal what lay beneath them — and applies it to the

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as a whole.Discovery Programs ''Strip the Cosmos'' Accessed 31 October 2021
/ref> The series "strips" away layers of objects such as

star A star is an astronomical object comprising a luminous spheroid of plasma (physics), plasma held together by its gravity. The List of nearest stars and brown dwarfs, nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked ...

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moon The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It is the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System and the largest and most massive relative to its parent planet, with a diameter about one-quarter that of Earth (comparable to the width of ...

comet A comet is an icy, small Solar System body that, when passing close to the Sun, warms and begins to release gases, a process that is called outgassing. This produces a visible atmosphere or coma, and sometimes also a tail. These phenomena ar ...

s, and

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s to reveal their interiors layer by layer and create a better understanding of how they originated, what makes them up, and how they work, with commentary by experts in

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and

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.Discovery United Kingdom Programs ''Strip the Cosmos'' Accessed 31 October 2021
/ref> The series also describes space missions intended to expand human understanding of the universe.

Episode list

Season 1 (2014)

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Season 2 (2017)

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Season 3 (2018)

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Season 4 (2020)

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Content

Episode list

Season 1 (2014)

Season 2 (2017)

Season 3 (2018)

Season 4 (2020)

See also

References

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