1955년 가상의 사막 도시이자 운석이 떨어진 도시 애스터로이드 시티. 매년 운석이 떨어진 것을 기념하는 소행성의 날 행사에 모인 사람들은 예상치 못한 사건으로 인해 그 곳에 옴짝달싹도 못한 채 갇히게 되고 계속해서 생각지도 못한 예측불허 상황들이 펼쳐지는데…

앨리 에로위(조디 포스터)는 어렸을 적 외계인으로부터 교신을 받은 기억을 지니고 사는 소녀이다. 그녀는 성장하면서도 계속 그 믿음을 지녀 밤마다 모르는 상대와의 교신을 기다리며 단파 방송에 귀를 기울인다. 아버지가 돌아가신 후 자신이 찾고자 하는 절대적인 진리의 해답은 과학에 있다고 믿는 그녀. 천문학자가 된 엘리는 그리움의 대상을 우주 어딘가의 외계생명체에서 찾는다. 마침내 그가 포착한 베가성에서 온 신호는 은하계를 넘나드는 운송수단의 설계도였고 세계는 혼돈에 휩싸이게 되는데...

역사상 가장 위대한 왕 세종과 관노로 태어나 종3품 대호군이 된 천재 과학자 장영실. 20년 간 꿈을 함께 하며 위대한 업적을 이뤄낸 두 사람. 세종 24년인 1442년, 명나라 사신은 황제의 칙서를 들고 조선을 방문한다. 명의 사신은 조선이 천문 연구를 통해 독자적 시간을 가지는 것을 우려하며 천문 의기들을 폐기하고 이를 발명한 장영실을 압송하려 한다. 그러던 와중 임금이 타는 가마 안여(安與)가 부서지는 사건으로 세종은 장영실을 문책하며 하루아침에 궁 밖으로 내치고 그 이후 장영실은 자취를 감추는데...

뉴질랜드의 아름다운 자연풍광과 밤하늘을 담은 다큐멘터리. 전직 군인이자 사진작가인 탐 로웨와 뉴질랜드 감독 니젤 스탠포드가 공동작업한 이 영화는 풍경, 사람 및 야생 동물의 놀라운 슬로우 모션 및 타임 랩스 촬영이 특징으로, 영화의 한 장면이 지난 2010년 올해의 천문사진상을 받았을 정도로 뛰어난 영상미가 돋보인다. 이 영화는 또한 세계 최초로 일반 판매된 4K 해상도의 영화로도 유명하다.

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.

칠레의 3,000미터 고도, 아타카마 사막에 전 세계에서 온 천문학자들이 별을 관찰하기 위해 모인다. 하지만 그곳에는 독재 정권 아래 정치범들의 유해도 있다. 천문학자들이 어딘가에 존재할지도 모를 생명체를 찾아 멀리 떨어져 있는 우주를 관찰하는 동안 관측소기슭에서 여자들은 사막의 흙을 파내며 사라진 친척들을 찾는다.

(2016년 제13회 서울환경영화제)

Photo sequence of the rare transit of Venus over the face of the Sun, one of the first chronophotographic sequences. In 1873, P.J.C. Janssen, or Pierre Jules César Janssen, invented the Photographic Revolver, which captured a series of images in a row. The device, automatic, produced images in a row without human intervention, being used to serve as photographic evidence of the passage of Venus before the Sun, in 1874.

A college football star falls for his mousy French tutor.

Martinique Island, 1974. Inspired by the writings of the Martiniquais poet and politician Aimé Césaire (1913-2008), the dreamer Robert Saint-Rose, known as Zétwall (Star in Creole), aspires to be the first Frenchman to step on the lunar surface.

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.

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.

Poland's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1973

How's it all gonna end? This experience takes us on a journey to the end of time, trillions of years into the future, to discover what the fate of our planet and our universe may ultimately be. We start in 2019 and travel exponentially through time, witnessing the future of Earth, the death of the sun, the end of all stars, proton decay, zombie galaxies, possible future civilizations, exploding black holes, the effects of dark energy, alternate universes, the final fate of the cosmos - to name a few.

In this film, Méliès concocts a combination fairy- and morality tale about the foolishness of trying to look too deeply into the workings of an unstable and inscrutable universe. At a medieval school, an old astronomer begins to teach a class of young men, all armed with telescopes, about the art of scrutinising an imminent eclipse. When a mechanical clock strikes twelve, all the young men rush to the windows and fix their telescopes on the heavens.

The year is 1985. Oliver, a boy with an overflowing imagination, moves with his family to the southernmost corner of Europe, just as Halley's Comet is about to pass by. These events will mark a before and after in the emotional life of Óliver, who will look to the stars for the solution to his problems in the new school, in the neighborhood and at home. To make matters worse, his grandfather, nicknamed "el majara" is encouraged to help him interpret the comet's message and take a step forward in his new Universe.

When a young man drops out of school to care for his agoraphobic mother he too finds himself increasingly insulated from the outside world.

Nerdy Jewish Nelly Sue Edelmeister, daughter of a New York mother and Berlin musician in Berlin gets straight A's, except for gym. When she hears her dream prince, actual royal Edouard, a fellow astronomy buff who studies in Luxemburg, patronizes the basketball tournament hosted there by a European school she wants to join her school's girls team.

In our terrestrial view of things, the speed of light seems incredibly fast. But as soon as you view it against the vast distances of the universe, it's unfortunately very slow. This animation illustrates, in realtime, the journey of a photon of light emitted from the surface of the sun and traveling across a portion of the solar system, from a human perspective.

Liberties were taken with certain things like the alignment of planets and asteroids, as well as ignoring the laws of relativity concerning what a photon actually "sees" or how time is experienced at the speed of light, but overall the size and distances of all the objects were kept as accurate as possible. It was also decided to end the animation just past Jupiter to keep the running length below an hour.

In a mountainous region in an Asian backwater banana republic, it is said that the descendents of all those buried in its earth will be blessed with fantastic fortune and good health. However, if a special ceremony is not performed on the grounds, then the luck will only last for 24 years. A trio of Chinese Americans decide to venture into these mountains hoping to change their luck; Anna Wong (Moon Lee) is an executive facing a corporate meltdown, Wisely (Chin Ka-Lok) is dying of brain cancer, and UCLA Prof. Chang (Tsui Siu-Ming) is an expert in feng shui. Tin can potentate General Nguen (Yuen Wah) also has designs on the grounds -- hoping to turn his third world, fourth rate country into a superpower. Along the way, the three heroes fall in with a group of local rebels, including the high-kicking Nguen Van Vong (Sibelle Hu).