Heads Up!

Season 1

Heads Up! is an educational television show which is produced and broadcast by TVOntario. The host is Bob McDonald, who is better known as the host of the weekly radio show Quirks & Quarks.

Heads Up! premiered on TVO on September 8, 2005.

Where to Watch Heads Up! • Season 1

13 Episodes

  • How Do I Become an Astronaut?
    E1
    How Do I Become an Astronaut?We visit the Johnson Space Centre in Houston to meet astronauts training for their flights into space. We tour the international space station, learn how to make dinner on the space shuttle, and find out about blasting off.
  • Why Is the Sun so Hot?
    E2
    Why Is the Sun so Hot?
  • Where's Our Place in Space?
    E3
    Where's Our Place in Space?
  • How Do We Get Around in Space?
    E4
    How Do We Get Around in Space?
  • What Are Shooting Stars?
    E5
    What Are Shooting Stars?Rocks from space fall to Earth every day. Called meteoroids, these rocks' are mostly very small pebbles that drift our way from the asteroid belt beyond Mars.
  • How Cold Is Pluto?
    E6
    How Cold Is Pluto?
  • Why Do Some Planets Have Rings?
    E7
    Why Do Some Planets Have Rings?Fly through the rings of Saturn aboard the Cassini spacecraft and have a snowball fight among the billions of particles circling the most beautiful planet. Saturn is not the only planet with rings, all the giant worlds in our solar system have them and they're all different.
  • Why Do Stars Twinkle?
    E8
    Why Do Stars Twinkle?
  • Is Earth the Only Planet with Water?
    E9
    Is Earth the Only Planet with Water?
  • When Can I Go to Mars?
    E10
    When Can I Go to Mars?
  • Is Anyone out There?
    E11
    Is Anyone out There?
  • Why Do Comets Have Tails?
    E12
    Why Do Comets Have Tails?Join us as we fly right through the tail of a comet onboard the Stardust spacecraft.
  • Why Are Planets Round?
    E13
    Why Are Planets Round?This is a story about gravity. We learn that gravity is a force that works everywhere, even in space and it always pulls towards the centre of an object.

 

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