時は２３世紀。処女航海中のＢ型エンタープライズ号に救難信号が入り、かつてのエンタープライズの艦長、カーク提督の助力を得て、救助活動を開始。ところがアクシデントにより、艦の一部が消滅してしまう。７８年後、ピカード率いる最新鋭エンタープライズは救難信号を受け、現場に急行。そこで彼らが救出したのは、７８年前の事故の生存者ソランだった。ピカードは事故の調査を開始するが、突然クリンゴン帝国の攻撃船が現れる。
巨大な電気嵐が近未来の地球を襲い、各地で不慮の災害や事故が発生。自らもそのせいで危うく命を落としかけた宇宙飛行士のロイは、ある極秘情報を聞かされて驚く。かつて初の太陽系外有人探査計画の司令官として宇宙へ旅立ち、その後消息を絶った父のクリフォードが実はまだ生きていて、彼が今なお続行中の実験のせいで電気嵐が生じ、このままでは太陽系に壊滅的危機が訪れるというのだ。かくしてロイは父に会いに宇宙へと旅立つ。
17歳で一流の名門大学MIT（マサチューセッツ工科大）への合格を果たした秀才女学生のローダ。しかし、ある日彼女は車を運転中、ふとした気の緩みから、若い家族の乗る車に正面から突っ込み、妊婦と子どもを死なせてしまう。4年の刑期を終えて出所した後、ローダは、ひとり取り残されて世捨て人のような生活を送る遺族の夫ジョンのもとへ謝罪に出向いたものの、なかなか真実を告白できず、代わりに、清掃会社の一員を装って彼の家へ定期的に通い始める。
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.
The captivating tales of the people and events behind one of humanity's greatest achievements in exploration: NASA's Voyager mission.
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.
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.
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!
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.