• Reading Levels 3 - 5

How big is the universe?

We know that the universe is infinite. But what does that really mean? How big is our solar system? What does Earth look like from another planet? In this beautiful film, Brian Cox zooms out from a beach on Sicily to the edge to the deepest depths of space – over ten billion light years away.

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