Orpheline depuis l'âge de 9 ans, Eleanor, dite Ellie, a toujours cultivé une passion pour l'astronomie, qu'elle a choisi comme métier. Scientifique réputée, elle scrute désormais les tréfonds de l'univers, à la recherche d'un hypothétique signal de vie extraterrestre, pour le compte du fortuné David Drumlin. Persuadé de travailler à fonds perdus, celui-ci la licencie, alors qu'elle pense toucher au but. Ellie décroche le soutien financier d'un milliardaire excentrique, SR Hadden, et d'un conseiller du président des États-Unis, Palmer Joss, et peut ainsi poursuivre son écoute du ciel. Au bout de longs mois, elle capte enfin un signal artificiel, en provenance de l'étoile Véga...
Asteroid City est une ville minuscule, en plein désert, dans le sud-ouest des États-Unis. Nous sommes en 1955. Le site est surtout célèbre pour son gigantesque cratère de météorite et son observatoire astronomique à proximité. Ce week-end, les militaires et les astronomes accueillent cinq enfants surdoués, distingués pour leurs créations scientifiques, afin qu’ils présentent leurs inventions. À quelques kilomètres de là, par-delà les collines, on aperçoit des champignons atomiques provoqués par des essais nucléaires.
What forms might life take in the Solar System and beyond? In the Academy's newest original planetarium show, see how a deeper understanding of Earth might help us locate other living worlds, light years away.
The people of the planet Aeon, blessed with six suns, have never experienced night. When an archeological excavation uncovers evidence of an ancient catastrophe, all signs point towards the impending darkness of the very first Nightfall. Panic erupts as the suns slowly disappear one by one. Science struggles against superstition as the people race to comprehend the approaching Nightfall... the end of the world as they know it. Based on Isaac Asimov's classic story "Nightfall," voted "The Greatest Science-Fiction Story OF All Time."
When a young man drops out of school to care for his agoraphobic mother he too finds himself increasingly insulated from the outside world.
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.
Dans le désert d'Atacama, au Chili, à trois mille mètres d'altitude, des astronomes étudient l'univers avec des télescopes parmi les plus puissants du monde car la transparence du ciel y permet de regarder jusqu'aux confins de l'univers. Les astronomes y scrutent notamment les galaxies les plus éloignées en quête d'une vie extraterrestre. La sécheresse du sol en fait aussi un lieu de recherches archéologiques et conserve intacts les restes humains : ceux des momies, des explorateurs et des mineurs mais aussi les ossements des victimes et disparus de la dictature militaire d'Augusto Pinochet.
Poland's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1973
L'amitié entre le Roi Sejong et l'inventeur et astronome Jang Yeong-sil au début du XVe siècle.
Portrait d'un doux rêveur qui voulut rallier la Lune depuis la Martinique en fusée monoplace pour être le premier Français à marcher sur la Lune et rendre sa fierté à son « pays ». Un documentaire troublant en forme de songe poétique.
Three billion miles away a grand-piano-sized spacecraft is speeding through the outer solar system at nearly 1,000 miles per minute. After nearly a decade in space, the New Horizons space probe will have just 86 seconds to complete its primary mission: Discover the planet Pluto. This time-sensitive special will showcase the first quality pictures of Pluto that the probe will capture.
Un portrait de notre planète au travers de magnifiques images, tournées durant 2 ans par Tom Lowe, élu photographe astronome de l'année.
Alice is an insecure Leo girl who thinks the stars have made a mistake with her, until one day she receives a blank book with only instructions that promise that any astrological prediction written on those pages will come true. With the power to influence everyone with the predictions she now has access to, Alice becomes an online phenomenon, but also turns the world around her upside down.
This feature-length documentary is a portrait of eclipse chasers, people for whom solar eclipses - among nature's more spectacular phenomena – are a veritable obsession. The film follows 4 of them as they travel incredible distances to witness the last total eclipse of the millennium as it sweeps eastward across Europe to India. At various points along the way enthusiasts Alain Cirou in France, Paul Houde in Austria, Olivier Staiger in Germany and Debasis Sarkar in India offer their impressions of the historic event.
The story of Benjamin Banneker, the early American patriot whose achievements rival those of Benjamin Franklin!! Risking his life, working with the Underground Railroad to elude vicious slave catchers!
Séquence photo du transit rare de Vénus sur la face du Soleil, une des premières séquences chronophotographiques.
No one seems to understand Nakami. His nights are restless, his days sleepy, and his time at school is isolating. Yet all that seems to change when he encounters his carefree classmate, Magari, dozing off in their high school’s abandoned observatory. Not only is Magari friendly, she’s also a closet insomniac. Together they find solidarity in their shared condition, using the observatory to nap as needed. When their unsanctioned use of the space is discovered, the only way to save their refuge is to revive the school’s long defunct astronomy club. As they work together and get to know each other, their bond grows ever stronger, but hidden truths threaten to cut their budding friendship shot.
Boule de gaz et d'énergie brute dont la température peut atteindre 15 millions de degrés, située à 150 millions de kilomètres de notre planète, le Soleil est à l'origine de la vie sur Terre et influe sur une infinité de phénomènes naturels. L'étoile autour de laquelle nous tournons, relativement proche à l’échelle du cosmos, est pourtant loin d'avoir encore dévoilé tous ses mystères...
Richard, an astronomy-obsessed worrier spends his time fantasizing about outer-space and the cosmos, an activity which antagonizes friends and family. One day, he meets Johnny, a handsome Italian man, with an enormous appetite for life, whose idea of a holiday involves breaking into the nearest small holiday home. He offers him love and an escape from the monotony of work.
Four exceptional astronomers celebrate 50 years of work and friendship on a return road trip in the southwestern United States, recapturing youthful adventures and recounting each other's influences on the most exciting period in astronomy’s history. Roger the instrument-maker, Donald the theoretician, Nick the visionary, and Wal the observer. Together they represent the most productive period astronomy has ever had. They helped build the world’s biggest observatories and made revolutionary discoveries about the evolving universe, discoveries that have the power to change the way humanity sees itself. Alison Rose’s film is a funny, insightful, humbling and intimate portrait of friendship, as the men reflect on how their profound work on the universe has reflected back on the individual, affecting their sense of religious faith, how life may have purpose, and what is knowable and unknowable.