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Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In 'Secrets of the Sun, ' take a guided tour of Earth's life-giving star through computer-generated graphics. 'Mars: the Red Planet' uses dated collected from probes and robotic rovers to take viewers to the planet's surface to show what life would be like for a human settlement. 'The End of the Earth' takes a harrowing look at the results of a collision with a deep space object, and at the technologies scientists are developing to protect the planet....
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Scientists are all aboard an Earth discovery vessel on a fruitless search for life in space when they encounter a lost spaceship perched on the event horizon of the universe's most powerful phenomenon, a black hole.
4) Coherence
Publisher
Bellanova Films ; Ugly Duckling Films ; Glowstick LLC
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
On the night of an astronomical anomaly, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. Part cerebral sci-fi and part relationship drama, a tightly focused, intimately shot film that quickly ratchets up with tension and mystery.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
In a series of messages placed in her grandmother's ancestral jar, a seventh century princess and future ruler of the Korean kingdom of Silla vents her frustration at not being permitted to study astronomy because she is a girl.
Author
Publisher
SF Design
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Archaeoastronomy is a relatively new field of study that examines the astronomical knowledge of prehistoric peoples.These sophisticated sky-watchers cannily created observatories to help them understand the turning points in the year. Knowing when spring began, when to plant and harvest crops, and when winter was turning had an overwhelming significance in their lives. Steve Mulligan has applied his large-format camera skills to his most recent fifteen-year-long...
Series
Publisher
TNM
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In this program, you will witness gargantuan things, from the cosmic web that makes up to 90 percent of the mass of the universe, to superclusters and Lyman alpha blobs that range in size and shapes. Learn about supergiant elliptical galaxies, radio lobes and some of the largest black holes in the universe.
Series
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Disc 1: Doomsday 2012: the End of Days: Doomsday is foretold in the Mayan calendar, the Chinese oracle of the I Ching and an Internet-based prophetic softward program. December 21, 20012 will be the End of Days. Mayan doomsday prophecy: The Maya were legendary astronomers and timekeepers. Thier calendar is more accurate than our own. They tracked stars and planets and assigned great meaning to astronomical phenomena and made the 2012 doomsday prophecy...
13) Astrobiology
Series
Publisher
TNM
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Is Earth the only living planet or does life exist beyond Earth? Where did the spark occur that changed non-living matter into living? Why is Earth the only planet to have plate tectonics? Find the answers to these burning questions and more.
