When did NOVA Season 5 Episode 20 air?
NOVA Season 5 Episode 20 aired on June 21, 1978 at 9 PM ET.


PBS' premier science series helps viewers of all ages explore the science behind the headlines. Along the way, NOVA demystifies science and technology, and highlights the people involved in scientific pursuits.
In 1965, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, two radio astronomers at Bell Telephone Laboratories, discovered faint, but ever-present, microwave signals from space—the most ancient and most distant signals detected by man: the oldest "fossils" in the universe. NOVA explores the current surge of cosmological discovery that continues to aid scientists in the "cosmic archaeology" of digging into the history of the universe.
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NOVA Season 5 Episode 20 aired on June 21, 1978 at 9 PM ET.
This episode runs for approximately 55 minutes.
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