Stargazing Challenges (2012)

A documentary chronicling the history of the telescope from the time of Galileo. Featuring interviews with leading scientists discussing Galileo's first use of the telescope to the latest discoveries in cosmology.

Roy McBride é um engenheiro espacial, portador de um leve grau de autismo, que decide empreender a maior jornada de sua vida: viajar para o espaço, cruzar a galáxia e tentar descobrir o que aconteceu com seu pai, um astronauta que se perdeu há vinte anos atrás no caminho para Netuno.

A team of international scientists attempt to document the first-ever image of a black hole.

Rhoda Williams, uma mulher jovem e brilhante recentemente aceita no programa de astrofísica do MIT, pretende explorar o cosmos. John Burroughs, um compositor brilhante, acaba de atingir o auge de sua profissão, e está prestes a ter um segundo filho com sua esposa amorosa. Na véspera da descoberta de um novo planeta no espaço, aparentemente escondido atrás do sol (um segundo planeta Terra), a tragédia, e as vidas desses estranhos tornam-se irremediavelmente entrelaçadas. Distante do mundo e os seres que eles conheciam, os dois jovens começam um caso de amor improvável, que vai despertá-los para a vida. Mas quando um deles é apresentado com a oportunidade de viajar para a Terra, outros abraçam uma realidade alternativa. Que vida nova eles vão escolher?

Since it explored Pluto in 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft has been zooming toward NASA's most distant target yet. Join the mission team as the probe attempts to fly by Ultima Thule, an object 4 billion miles from Earth.

The captivating tales of the people and events behind one of humanity's greatest achievements in exploration: NASA's Voyager mission.

In Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers peer deep into the cosmos in search for answers concerning the origins of life. Nearby, a group of women sift through the sand searching for body parts of loved ones, dumped unceremoniously by Pinochet's regime.

TimeScape, é o primeiro do mundo em tecnologia 4k. A empreitada quem financiou foi o compositor e empresário neozelandês Nigel “John” Stanford, que forneceu a Tom Lowe uma câmera digital MX Red 4K. A multinacional japonesa Canon patrocinou a produção, fornecendo Lentes 5.6K 5D Mark II e DSLRs. O filme apresenta em câmera lenta e impressionante cinematografia timelapse paisagens, pessoas e a vida selvagem da América do Sul. Para rodá-lo, Lowe passou 2 anos vagando em sua caminhonete Toyota pelo continente. A produção, naturalmente, envolveu muitas dificuldades, como passar 250 noites ao ar livre, dormindo no chão, sem barracas, sob as estrelas e ao lado de sua câmera, enquanto o timelapse estava sendo capturado. A tecnologia 4k, utilizada no filme, permite a altíssima definição de 4096 x 2160 pixels.

John Dobson, an 89 year old with a white ponytail and knack for comedy, is the inventor of the Dobsonian telescope mount, which revolutionized astronomy by making large, inexpensive telescopes and deep space observing available to amateur astronomers around the world.

Man has always sought to seek further afield. After the seafaring explorers of the 16th century, 21st century cosmologists today navigate more celestial oceans, with each mission providing an ever-broader and more impressive cartography of our surroundings. At the avant garde of modern technology, these strange travellers are actually immobile, and their vessels are powerful and spectacular telescopes, on the Earth or in space, constantly widening the limits of our knowledge and giving form to our dreams of infinity. From Hawaii to Australia, via South Africa and China, we set out on an incredible scientific and human adventure to visit the planet's greatest cosmic exploration centres to discover the new challenges involved in understanding the universe. A journey on Earth and in the heavens that will take your breath away!

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 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.

Kate Humble and Helen Czerski reveal the inner workings of the sun and investigate why scientists think changes in the sun's behaviour may have powerful effects on our climate.

Infinitude is a meditation on the cosmic evolution of matter and energy over time. Experimental filmmaking techniques such as time-lapse, high-speed, and stop-motion photography were used to photograph handmade props, fluid dynamics, and angular momentum. Infinitude is a handmade representation of the exponential growth of complexity in the cosmos.

A history of the telescope and a look at the James Webb telescope, and at the universe through the eyes of scientists and telescopes since the beginning.

María Teresa é uma mulher notável que pratica três atividades aparentemente opostas. Por um lado ela é astrônoma (Prêmio Nacional de Artes), responsável pela descoberta da primeira Anã Marrom, mas ao mesmo tempo é colecionadora de pedras preciosas encontradas no mar (ágatas, aqueles cristais luminosos que trazem as ondas do oceano), além de se dedicar à tapeçaria. É também professora, ensaísta e diretora do Observatório da Universidade do Chile. Este documentário, que reúne um material não incluído em "Nostalgia da Luz", apresenta-nos mais uma personalidade da astronomia chilena que nos revela sua paixão pela vida e pelos detalhes que a formam.

BLACK SUNS: AN ASTROPHYSICS ADVENTURE is a documentary about chasing eclipses and science dreams. It chronicles the lives of two globetrotting African American astrophysicists, Dr. Alphonse Sterling and Dr. Hakeem Oluseyi, as they follow the two solar eclipses that occurred in 2012. Dr. Alphonse Sterling of NASA, stationed in Japan, had early success in the US, but left his home country to further cultivate his wide-ranging interests. Dr. Hakeem Oluseyi of the Florida Institute of Technology, is a scientist who beat the odds of poverty, and a poor early education, to get where he is today. The film is hosted by award-winning cultural astronomer Dr. Jarita Holbrook.