Mystiske elektriske hændelser truer menneskeheden. De kan spores til projekt Lima, der ledte efter intelligent liv i rummet. Astronauten Roy McBride siger ja til at afdække sandheden om det 30 år gamle projekt, der blev iværksat af hans legendariske far - og som siden er forsvundet. Hvad venter McBride i rummet, og er hans far stadig i live?
En talentfuld ung kvinde, Rhoda Williams, med alle muligheder foran sig, får sin skæbne ændret radikalt, da hun en en brandert kører en mor og hendes barn ihjel. Efter at have udtjent sin straf vender hun tilbage og tager et rengøringsjob på sin gamle skole. Hun møder manden, John, hvis familie hun dræbte, og uden at afsløre sig selv begynder hun at hjælpe ham ud af den sump han efterfølgende er sunket ned i. Samtidigt bliver det afsløret, at en hidtil ukendt planet er blevet opdaget. En planet, der ligner en kopi af jorden.
Stardate: Det treogtyvende århundrede. De pensionerede Starfleet-officerer James T. Kirk, Montgomery Scott og Pavel Chekov er æresgæster ombord på det nyligt indviede Enterprise-B. Men en prøveflyvning tager en uventet drejning, da rumskibet løber på to fartøjer, som er fanget inde i Nexus - et mystisk energibånd. Under det farefulde redningsforsøg fejes Kaptajn Kirk ud i rummet. Syv årtier senere redder Kaptajn Jean-Luc Picard og besætningen på Enterprise-D en fysiker fra El Auria ved navn Soran. Hvad Picard ikke ved er, at Sorans morderiske planer indbefatter at Enterprise tilintetgøres og millioner mister livet. Nu findes Picards eneste håb for fremtiden inde i Nexus... og hos en legendarisk kaptajn fra fortiden.
The captivating tales of the people and events behind one of humanity's greatest achievements in exploration: NASA's Voyager mission.
Challenged by a new student, tutor and theorist Galileo co-opts emerging telescope technology and discovers irrefutable proof of the heretical notion that the earth is not the center of the universe. But in a rigid society ruled by an uneasy alliance of aristocracy and clergy already undermined by the Plague and the Reformation, science is a threat and enlightenment is a luxury. Faced with either death at the hands of the Inquisition or recantation to a hypocritical but all-powerful Papacy, Galileo must choose between his own life and the restless scientific curiosity that he has spurned family, friends, and wealth to pursue.
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.
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.
The first American space station Skylab is found in pieces scattered in Western Australia. Putting these pieces back together and re-tracing the Skylab program back to its very conception reveals the cornerstone of human space exploration.
At the edge of our solar system supposedly lies an immense planet. Five to ten times the size of the Earth. Several international teams of scientists have been competing in a frantic race to detect it, in uncharted territories, far beyond Neptune. The recent discovery of several dwarf planets, with intriguing trajectories, have put astronomers on the trail of this mysterious planet. Why is this enigmatic planet so difficult to detect? What would a ninth planet teach us about our corner of the universe? Could it help us unlock some of the mysteries of our solar system?
Based on the famous Gustav Holst musical suite, this musical film takes watchers on a magnificent journey of the planets of the Solar System.
The show tells a thrilling story of the most remarkable space mission in human history.
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.
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!
A brief visualisation of NASA’s historic spacecrafts Mariner, Pioneer, Voyager, and Dawn, exploring the solar system, culminating in the New Horizons mission.
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.
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.
Our Sun could erupt at any moment, spewing a vast wave of charged particles toward Earth that could leave millions of people without power for up to a year. Learn about the latest missions to protect our planet from this potentially devastating threat.
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.