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Name: Origins: Back to the Beginning
Released: 2004-09-29
Cast: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Episode Details: Origins: Back to the Beginning

Origins: Back to the Beginning

Series: NOVA

Season: Season 32

Episode Number: 4

Air Date: 09/29/2004

Duration: 55 min

"Origins: Back to the Beginning" explores how the colossal, mind-boggling forces of the early universe made it possible for habitable worlds to emerge. The clues begin with a race among scientists to capture lingering echoes of the big bang's ferocious energy in a microwave "whisper" from deep space. The race pits underdog astronomer Tony Readhead and his improvised detector in the high Andes against NASA scientists and their state-of-the-art satellite probe. Host astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson shares his excitement with viewers as computer animation of the big bang's echo emerges on the screen. It's as close as we can get to a "photograph" of the primordial universe. Here we glimpse the seeds from which all the galaxies, stars, and planets eventually grew.