Радиоастроном доктор Элли Эрроуэй мечтала о звездах с детских лет, когда вместе с отцом занималась радиолюбительством и выходила на связь в эфир. Она рано потеряла родителей и думала, что они где-то далеко, в пространстве… Однажды во время изучения «музыки сфер» она получила искусственный сигнал с Веги. По расшифрованным данным была построена установка для путешествия. Вокруг грандиозного проекта сгрудились не только энтузиасты, верящие в контакт, но и те, кто хотел помешать: скептики, представители ортодоксальных учений и террористы, уничтожившие первую установку. На другой Элли отправилась в неведомое…
Однажды радиоастроном Зэйн Замински услышал сигнал из космоса. Однако за совершенное Зэйном «открытие века» его начальник Джордиан увольняет своего сотрудника, из чего Замински делает вывод, что существует грандиозный заговор с целью скрыть установление контакта с внеземной цивилизацией. В поисках доказательств своего предположения Зэйн приезжает в мексиканскую провинцию, где знакомится с Иланой Грин, специалисткой в области прогнозов погоды для всей планеты. Здесь, в Мексике, с риском для жизни Зэйн узнает, что инопланетяне у нас на Земле чувствуют себя хозяевами. Конечно, они пока еще не завоевали Землю, но, выбирая, каким путем им идти, чтобы решить проблемы жизни на своей, очевидно, гибнущей планете (путем переговоров с землянами или путем уничтожения нашей цивилизации), пришельцы предпочли второй вариант…
В центре сюжета разведённый мужчина по имени Грег, воспитывающий взрослую дочь. Случайная встреча с загадочной Изабель открывает герою шокирующую тайну: окружающий его мир и вся его жизнь лишь иллюзия, созданная компьютером, а он сам и все остальные окружающие его люди живут в некоем симуляторе жизни, сколь блаженном и красивом, столь и искусственном и лишь имитирующим жизнь…
Glenn Manning, "The Amazing Colossal Man," believed dead after falling from the Hoover Dam, reemerges in rural Mexico, brain damaged, disfigured, and very angry.
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!
An American investigator for the U.N., a German scientist and a British reporter join forces to investigate a series of disappearances and mutilation-deaths confined to a Swiss Alp and involving a thick, mobile cloud, a telepathic girl, an animate dead man, and tentacled, cyclopean beings from another planet.
An incredible travel through space and time between the walls of the Paris Observatory, which is celebrating its 350th birthday. Place of discoveries such as speed of light or Neptune’s existence, it is still today one of the oldest operating observatories and the greatest hub in the world for astronomy and astrophysics researches, second only to Harvard.
From F.Z. Maguire catalogue: The background of this picture is the Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, Cal. This observatory, the gift of James Lick, of Pennsylvania, was constructed at a cost of $700,000, being equipped with one of the most powerful telescopes that has ever been produced, and is famous the world over. The view of the Observatory is very complete, showing the style of architecture, including the glass covered dome in which are placed the various astronomical instruments. Every Saturday night throughout the year is set apart for visitors to inspect the Observatory and look through the great glass. This view shows a coach load driving up and alighting.
Although the mountain volcano Mauna Kea last erupted around 4,000 years ago, it is still hot today, the center of a burning controversy over whether its summit should be used for astronomical observatories or preserved as a cultural landscape sacred to the Hawaiian people. For five years the documentary production team Nā Maka o ka 'Āina ("the eyes of the land") captured on video the seasonal moods of Mauna Kea's unique 14,000-foot summit, the richly varied ecosystems that extend from sea level to alpine zone, the legends and stories that reveal the mountain's geologic and cultural history, and the political turbulence surrounding the efforts to protect the most significant temple in the islands: the mountain itself.
A nontheatrical (16mm) film comprise of three contiguous episodes of the TV series "Rocky Jones, Space Ranger".
When George's suspicions get him fired from the observatory, there is only one path he can seek to fulfil his retribution. The new order is upon us!
A couple recovering from break ups meet
This film tells the surprising story of how the Allegheny Observatory has been a world leader in the study of the stars since the 1860s. Self-educated, and often facing unrelenting hardships, the people associated with the Allegheny Observatory defied the odds to make enormous contributions to the founding of astrophysics and early aviation.
As coronavirus begins to sweep the globe, Zhang returns to her father’s village with her camera, seeking to understand where the extraordinary phenomenon might sit in the grand palimpsest of China’s history. As with all of Zhang’s work, this is a committed, reflective, formally assured non-fiction film, grounded in collaboration and blessed with an uncanny sense of unhurried time.
Documentary about the Griffith Observatory, shown at their Leonard Nimoy Event Horizon Theater
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 its own observatory.
For all important things in our lives, there is a collection of things that come together that give them significance. For our favourite meals, it is a collection of ingredients coming together to form a taste that gives us comfort. For our homes, it is a collection of memorabilia, items, trinkets, and decorations that come together in a way that is representative of who we are. Our families are a group of several individuals who play different roles in our lives and come together to form our support system. For the Queer community, friends collectively join to form a support system that plays an essential role in their happiness and survival in a homophobic world. The human experience is collaborative and a collection of things that shape our lives. This documentary shows how the people in Alex’s life come together to keep them afloat.