El futuro cercano, un tiempo en el que tanto la esperanza como la adversidad impulsan a la humanidad a mirar hacia las estrellas y más allá. Mientras un misterioso fenómeno amenaza con destruir la vida en el planeta Tierra, el astronauta Roy McBride emprende una misión a través de la inmensidad del espacio y sus muchos peligros para descubrir la verdad sobre una expedición perdida que décadas antes afrontó audazmente el vacío y el silencio en busca de lo desconocido.
Rhoda Williams, una brillante joven que acaba de ser aceptada en un programa de astrofísica del MIT, aspira a explorar el universo. John Burroughs, un compositor que acaba de alcanzar la cima de su carrera, está a punto de ser padre por segunda vez. Rhoda y John no se conocen, pero la víspera del descubrimiento de un Planeta Tierra duplicado tiene lugar una horrible tragedia que entrelaza y altera de modo irreversible sus vidas.
For two and a half years we followed the scientific team of the NASA Lucy Mission a mission that will unveil the origins of the Solar System and shared with them the many challenges they had to overcome such as a countdown to launch on time the building of the huge solar arrays or a pandemic.
Galileo Galilei, un brillante matemático y astrónomo que nació en Pisa en el siglo XVI, contribuyó de manera decisiva al desarrollo científico. Sus teorías sobre el sistema solar le granjearon el rechazo de las poderosas autoridades eclesiásticas. Basada en una obra de Bertol Brecht, "Galileo" analiza el enfrentamiento de la Iglesia contra un hombre que cuestionó abiertamente el principio de autoridad sobre el que se había basado durante siglos el conocimiento humano.
The captivating tales of the people and events behind one of humanity's greatest achievements in exploration: NASA's Voyager mission.
James T. Kirk, Montgomery Scott y Pavel Chekov asisten al viaje inaugural del USS Enterprise-B, que es requerido para ayudar a un convoy de naves que se hallan atrapadas en un cinturón de energía. Debido a la inexperiencia del capitán, Kirk decide ayudar pero cuando la cubierta donde se hallaba es destruida por una ráfaga de energía, es dado por muerto.
En su búsqueda del misterioso Planeta 9, astrónomos del mundo entero están ayudando a reescribir la historia del origen del sistema solar. Una investigación científica apasionante.
In Astronomy Part 2, you will learn all about the planets, asteroids, comets, meteoroids, the layers of the sun, fusion, and more. The Standard Deviants make learning astronomy easier with their unique teaching style, which incorporates humor, mnemonics, and sophisticated computer graphics.
This series also covers the essential concepts of astronomy: gravity, the light spectrum, Earth's magnetic field, the solar system, the sun, Kepler's Law, the universal law of gravitation, the Doppler Effect, and much more!
To help visualize the dramatic final chapter in Cassini's remarkable story, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory produced this short film that features beautiful computer-generated animation, thoughtful narration and a rousing score. Producers at JPL worked with filmmaker Erik Wernquist, known for his 2014 short film "Wanderers," to create a stirring finale video befitting one of NASA's most successful missions of exploration.
An Educational Favorites VHS from the NATURE SERIES featuring Leonard Nimoy
Blue Peter presenters Helen Skelton and Barney Harwood want to learn more about the solar system so they challenge scientists Helen Czerski and Jem Stansfield to find out more. They look at how to make telescopes and rockets, and use a toilet roll to measure the distances between planets.
What if you could get behind the wheel and race through space? We scale down the Solar System to the continental United States and place the planets along the way to better appreciate the immense scale of the Universe. See space as never before, with Mars looming over the Freedom Tower and Jupiter towering above the Lincoln Memorial. Join former astronaut Chris Hadfield - a YouTube sensation for his performance of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” aboard the International Space Station - and his interstellar hitchhikers Michio Kaku and astronomers Derrick Pitts and Laura Danly. It’s a joyride from coast to coast - and from the sun to Pluto.
A series of programs designed for the adult layman who has a curiosity about the skies and the makeup of the universe in which we live. The terms used during the series are fully explained and materials from a number of great observatories and institutions of learning are used for visual illustration. It begins with the solar system and works outward, stimulating interest in this area and awakening a desire for further study and investigation.
New planets are now being discovered outside our solar system on a regular basis, and these strange new worlds are forcing scientists to rewrite the history of our own solar system. Far from a simple story of stable orbits, the creation of our solar system is a tale of hellfire, chaos and planetary pinball. It's a miracle our Earth is here at all.
Metraje de animación que muestra el viaje de 45 minutos que realiza un fotón desde la superficie del sol hasta el planeta Júpiter.
Computer animation and footage from NASA space missions explain how our solar system evolved and the place Earth has within the system.
A brief visualisation of NASA’s historic spacecrafts Mariner, Pioneer, Voyager, and Dawn, exploring the solar system, culminating in the New Horizons mission.
Short educational film of our solar system