Bill Nye the Science Guy - Season 1 - Eps 19: Outer Space

1994-02-0426 min⭐ 7.2/10

The show is way out there, way far away. After all, it's in Outer Space. When you look at the night sky on a clear dark night, you can see thousands of stars. There are far more than you could count. And, they are way out there. They are very, very far away. It's about the hardest thing to imagine about space. Let's talk about the nearest star to us, the Sun. If somehow outer space were not an icy cold vacuum with nothing to eat, drink, or breathe, and we could drive there in a car, to get to the Sun at freeway speed of 100 kilometers/hour (61 miles/hour), it would take171 years of driving without stopping to sleep or get gas out in the near nothingness of space. That's just to the Sun. To get to even the closest star, Proxima Centauri, would take 40,000 years. On top of that, most things, billions and billions of stars, are much, much farther away than that! It is just astonishing. How do we know that everything is so far away? We have watched the sky for centuries.

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About Bill Nye the Science Guy

Bill Nye the Science Guy

Title: Bill Nye the Science Guy

First Air Date: 1993-09-10

Last Air Date: 1998-06-20

Status: Ended

Rating: 7.2/10 (from 80 votes)

Language: EN

Seasons: 6

Total Episodes: 100

Network: PBS

Genres: Comedy, Documentary, Kids

Production Companies: Rabbit Ears Productions, KCTS Television

Synopsis

It's "Mr. Wizard" for a different decade. Bill Nye is the Science Guy, a host who's hooked on experimenting and explaining. Picking one topic per show (like the human heart or electricity), Nye gets creative with teaching kids and adults alike the nuances of science.

Cast

Bill Nye

Bill Nye

Self - Host

Rachel Glenn

Rachel Glenn

Nancy

Jennifer Lin

Jennifer Lin

Amy Broder

Amy Broder

Amy

Ethan Ferkiss

Ethan Ferkiss

Smell Gibson

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