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Stellar

Is This Why We Haven’t Found Alien Civilizations?

Stellar is a miniseries that explores frontiers in space science and exploration featuring PBS Digital Studios’ most popular (and space loving) creators: Dianna Cowern (Physics Girl), Matt O’Dowd (Space Time) and Joe Hanson (It’s Okay to be Smart). The six episode miniseries is a cosmic road trip with our hosts visiting some of the most important astronomy research labs across America.

Is This Why We Haven’t Found Alien Civilizations?

Season 1 Episode 5 | 8m 50s | CC

Looking up at the stars makes you wonder: what and who is out there? And why haven’t we seen any other intelligent civilizations given the vast size and age of the universe?

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