Watch stargazing challenges Soap2day. 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.
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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...
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CERN and the University of California-Santa Barbara are collaborating in the search for the elusive substance that physicists and astronomers believe...
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Chaco Canyon, located in northwest New Mexico, is perhaps the only site in the world constructed in an elaborate pattern that mirrors the yearly...
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European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst and his NASA colleague Reid Wiseman are launched into space from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in...
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Archival material from the original NASA film footage – much of it seen for the first time – plus interviews with the surviving...
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The first feature from Alison McAlpine is a dialogue with the heavens—in this case, the heavens above the Andes and the Atacama Desert in...
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Billions of years ago, Venus may have harbored life-giving habitats similar to those on the early Earth. Today, Earth's twin is a planet knocked...
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Documentary about the Griffith Observatory, shown at their Leonard Nimoy Event Horizon Theater
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This movie explores the saga of the telescope over 400 years - the historical development, the scientific importance, the technological...
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A film about astronomy which also happens to show views of the ancient city of Winchester, before focussing on a particular house in the suburbs with...
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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...