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Week 1: The Journey Begins (New Year)

Episode number: 1

Overview: Why it is cold when the Earth is closest to the sun. Why we see Venus in the morning. The planets are close, the stars unreachable.

Week 2: Travelling in the Solar System (Early January)

Episode number: 2

Overview: Day and Night. A gigantic Sun with tiny planets. A look at the Zodiac. The solar system is the present; the stars are the past.

Week 3: The Moon, Our Companion (Mid-January)

Episode number: 3

Overview: The Sun is on time but the Moon is late. Why we see the Moon as a crescent. The half-moon crosses the Earth's orbit. Where the Moon came from. The Moon: Delay in space and Time.

Week 4: The Full Moon (Late January)

Episode number: 4

Overview: Discovering Mercury. Distant moons of other planets. Why we always see the same side of the Moon. Why we see the Sun so low but the Moon so high.

Week 5: Earth's Rotation (January/February)

Episode number: 5

Overview: Earth's Rotation. The Moon shows us where Mars is. Copernicus: The Earth in orbit. Why the Earth turns. Crossing time zones.

Week 6: Copernicus and Kepler (Early February)

Episode number: 6

Overview: Hidden planets. Kepler discovers the planets' timetable. The Earth moves more quickly in Winter. Earth overtakes Mars. Why we have two tides every day.

Week 7: Gravity (Early/Mid-February)

Episode number: 7

Overview: Why the Earth is round. Newton's apple. Why the Earth does not fall into the Sun. Three minutes more Sun every day. Sundials and the Earth's axis. Comets.

Week 8: The Stars (Mid-February)

Episode number: 8

Overview: Columbus and the Pole Star. Earth wobbles over the centuries. The imaginary 'heavenly vault'. The Sun, our star. Infinitely large to infinitely small.

Week 9: The Calendar (Late February)

Episode number: 9

Overview: Leap Days: The Earth misses a quarter of a day. Gregorian and Orthodox calendars. Solar and lunar calendars. Solid and gaseous planets.

Week 10: Waning Moon and Solar Eclipses (Early March)

Episode number: 10

Overview: The half-moon shows where we are going. Where the stars go during the day. The Moon and the planets: The Sun's invisible companions. The Moon's shadow on the Earth: Solar Eclipses.

Week 11: Eclipses and Occultations (Mid-March)

Episode number: 11

Overview: Annular solar eclipses. Partial solar eclipses. The Moon eclipsed in Earth's shadow. Occultation of Aldebaran.