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Discovery & Nature, Science & Environment, Collections - Series

Keywords:
Technology, discovery, Astronomy


Coproducer(s)/co-financing:
ARTE France, CNES, Observatoire de Paris

Music: Marc PERIER

Length:  1x26

Format:  One-off

Original version: French

Nationality: France

Year: 2015

Rights: all media, world

Support(s):  HD file

Collection: BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH

S2 - 02. CHILE, AT THE HEART OF THE MILKY WAY

Director(s): Jean-Philippe URBACH – Writer(s): Serge BRUNIER, Bruno BUCHER   Contact Contact   Download Print page

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No need for a telescope to admire and enjoy this fabulous show!
To the backdrop of the dark sky of the Chilean Andes cordillera, the Milky Way reveals itself in all its glory to the naked eye. Strangely enough, we will never be able to contemplate our galaxy as you look at a distant star. We are simply too close, our solar system is lodged in one of the huge spiral arms of the Milky Way.
To unravel its secrets, discover the diversity of the stars that compose it and understand its turbulent history, astronomers use powerful telescopes to navigate in this immense stellar disk of a diameter of some 100,000 light years that rotates at a mind-blowing speed of 250 km per second!
AVAILABLE FOR SCREENING: original French version only.
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