NOVA

Season 8, Episode 14

Episode Title: Cosmic Fire

Air Date: 1981-10-18

Overview:

A NOVA showing the extraordinary discoveries of X-ray astronomy. This new science has revealed that our universe is much stranger and more violent than ever imagined, filled with neutrons, stars, exploding galaxies, quasars and black holes—a universe seething with energy, bursting across vast distances of space and time.