The Planets

The Planets, an eight-part BBC television series, is a comprehensive documentary about our solar system. I've seen a few documentaries about outer space, but this one, though a decade old, is one of the more captivating and awe-inspiring series I've seen.

1. Different Worlds
2. Moon
3. Terra Firma
4. Giants
5. Star
6. Atmosphere
7. Life
8. Destiny - Beyond the Sun

There are some facts stated in the film that I don't agree with, such as the fact that our world is billions of years old. At least, it should be stated as a theory. Other than that, the documentary gives us an appreciation and wonder of the awesome power that created the different worlds in our universe -- oh how it humbles us! It makes me think of the Psalm of David:

O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babes and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger. When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas. O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
(Psalms 8 ESV)