Created on Monday, 22 August 2011 20:21

Inside the Milky Way takes viewers on a journey across 100,000 light-years to witness key moments in the history of the Milky Way. Using the latest science, NGC constructs a 3-D state of the art CGI model of our galaxy that allows you to peer into the heart of the Milky Way on the hunt for super-massive black holes.

You can watch how stars are born and die and fly out and above the plane of the galaxy to understand its true shape and scour its dusty spiral arms for the possibility of life.

Last updated: April 27, 2020 at 12:49 pm

Created on Saturday, 31 July 2010 16:30

There was a time, not so long ago, when science seemed to understand how the universe worked. Everything- us, the Earth, the stars, and even exotic-sounding supernovae- was made of atoms that were all created at time-zero: the Big Bang.

In between the atoms was nothing, a void: quite literally, 'space'.

But recently things have started to unravel. There is, it seems, a lot more to the universe than meets the eye. According to the best estimates, we only really know what about 4% of it is made of. But if only 4% is made of atoms what about the rest?

The rest is made of mysterious entities about which very little is understood with equally mysterious names: dark matter and dark energy.

Created on Saturday, 31 July 2010 14:53

400 Years of the Telescope takes viewers on a journey from Galileo’s first look at the cosmos in 1609, to today’s thrilling quests to discover new worlds and glimpse the formation of the first stars after the Big Bang.

The filmmakers traveled the globe, interviewing leading astronomers and cosmologists against a backdrop of the world’s greatest observatories, to create a vivid film that presents the human quest of the past 400 years to understand the structure and nature of the universe.

Created on Saturday, 31 July 2010 15:20

On a crystal-clear evening, on vacation perhaps, how often do we contemplate the night sky and promise to learn the stars and constellations? Somehow we never get round to it. Charts in newspapers look too complicated. Astronomical handbooks are equally daunting.

'Stargazing: A Graphic Guide To The Universe' is the answer – the night sky simply and beautifully mapped, an animated stellar atlas that works from anywhere on Earth. Season-by-season, it signposts and explains. Little by little – like learning a language – the cosmos is comprehensible.

Animated vignettes turn points of light – stars, nebulae, galaxies – into supernovae, flashing pulsars, searing quasars and rotating swarms of 150-billion stars with super-massive black holes at their centers.

The sky is viewed from three latitude bands – from the mid-latitudes of the northern hemisphere (Japan, Europe, North America), from the tropics, and from the mid-latitudes of the southern hemisphere (Australasia and southern South America).