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Big Astronomy: People, Places, Discoveries

26 minutes 35 seconds

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This film highlights the diverse people who enable discoveries at world-class observatories in Chile. Each scientist featured discusses their jobs and impacts they have made in the field of astronomy.

Media Details

Runtime: 26 minutes 35 seconds

Spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere, causing intense heating and friction that is displayed in a glowing, fiery tail of light.
3 minutes 43 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Large rounded blue and white instrument with round opening at the front. Man faces it in foreground. Title card reads, "A flying telescope in a 747?!"
4 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Illustration of a small boy wearing green shorts and holding the string of a kite. Title card reads, "A Kite for Moon."
8 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 4
Textured mount-like landform. Caption: It was incredible how Earthlike Titan appeared.
3 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Seedlings burst through the dry surface of an arid landscape. Text reads, “AIRS. Advancing Our Understanding of Earth’s Climate.”
3 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Astronaut in a space suit working on a machine. Caption: Training takes place in the neutral buoyancy lab.
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Grade Level: 1 - 3
Diagram of our solar system with Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus identified. Spanish captions.
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Grade Level: 1 - 3
Cartoon of two people standing close to a spaceship that as crashed and a third person a distance away. Spanish captions.
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Episode 7
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Grade Level: 1 - 3