Seven ages of a star, and a Boeing 707 turned flying gas station
Spark's eight uploads ran from dark energy and Pluto to Jimmy Carr testing why people laugh, with a Sellafield tour from two weeks earlier still drawing a crowd.
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What does a science channel put out in a week of eight uploads? On Spark, nearly the whole universe, plus a detour into comedy.
The newest long film is the one moving fastest. "What Happens If You Recreate A Star Here On Earth?" walks through a star's life in seven chapters, from cold stellar nurseries to red giants, white dwarfs, supernovae, pulsars and black holes, and ends with the old reminder that the atoms in your body were made inside dying stars. It drew more than 12,000 views in its first day. Close behind it is a day-old film about a 50-year-old Boeing 707 that Omega Air converted into a privately owned tanker, refueling Navy and Marine Corps F-18 Hornets in mid-air.
The rest of the week leaned toward space. One film took on dark energy and Einstein's cosmological constant. Another followed New Horizons out to Pluto, the world Clyde Tombaugh found in 1930 and the International Astronomical Union demoted in 2006. A third asked why ice at the lunar poles is pulling people back to the Moon. There was also a brisk overview of World War II naval warfare, from the Yamato and the Bismarck to the carriers at Midway.
The outlier is "Why Every Human Laughs The Exact Same Way," in which Jimmy Carr works through experiments with scientists including Sophie Scott and Robin Dunbar, rats that chirp when tickled among them.
The older title still in demand is a 13-day-old tour of Sellafield, the Cumbrian nuclear site of the 1957 Windscale fire, which has passed 160,000 views. Among the documentary channels near Spark in size, Real Wild and BBC deepwatch are running well above their usual pace, and NOVA is a little below its own.
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- Channel
- Spark
- Subscribers
- 1,990,000
- Videos published this week
- 8
- Video published
- September 27, 2026
- Video views so far
- 34,380
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