Documentaries Tagged “astronomy”
Jupiter: The Giant Planet
Jupiter: The Giant Planet
We journey half a billion miles from the earth’s surface to a mini solar system of over 60 moons rotating around a powerful planet of gas.
Its flowing colors and spots hold strange beauty, but contain violent storms and jet streams.
Could this big, bright ball of turbulent weather have been the star of Bethlehem?
Could one of it...
Biggest Things in Space
Biggest Things in Space
We can’t compare anything on earth to the biggest things known in space. The Lymann Alpha blob is a bubble like structure containing countless galaxies – perhaps the biggest object in the entire universe.
Regions of radio-emitting gas called “radio lobes” could be even bigger. Then there are super galaxy clusters which are hundreds ...
The Sun: Encyclopedia of Secrets
The Sun: Encyclopedia of Secrets
Documentary About The Sun, Earth and Universe. The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It has a diameter of about 1,392,000 kilometers (865,000 mi), about 109 times that of Earth, and its mass (about 2 × 1030 kilograms, 330,000 times that of Earth) accounts for about 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System.[10] Abou...
The Sun
The Sun
Approximately 5 billion years old and just under 333,000 times the mass of Earth, discover the enchanting story of the Sun, the heart of our solar system and the driving force of life on Earth. The Sun is by far the brightest object in the sky. It’s so bright that during the day its light drowns out virtually everything else in space. ...
IMAX: Hubble
IMAX: Hubble
Hubble 3D, also known as IMAX: Hubble 3D, is a 2010 documentary film about the Hubble Space Telescope repair mission.
"Through the power of IMAX 3D, Hubble 3D will enable movie-goers to journey through distant galaxies to explore the grandeur and mysteries of our celestial surroundings, and accompany space-walking astronauts as they...
Hubble: 15 Years of Discovery
Hubble: 15 Years of Discovery
ESA’s anniversary DVD film Hubble – 15 years of discovery covers all aspects of the Hubble Space Telescope project – a journey through the history, the troubled early life and the ultimate scientific successes of Hubble.
This portrait, directed by Lars Lindberg Christensen, contains large amounts of previously unpublished footage of...