Astrophysicist Dr. Anjali Tripathi, NOVA’s Co-Executive Producer Chris Schmidt, and PBS NewsHour’s science correspondent Miles O’Brien hold a discussion and offer a look at "The Planets” a five-part series that explores the awesome beauty of the planets in our solar system. From Mercury to the Kuiper Belt, learn about the history of the solar system, and how we’ve come to learn about its radical transformation over the last 4.6 billion years.

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