Astronomy DVD'S

1. THE NEW SOLAR SYSTEM DVD

All The latest discoveries from NASA and ESA probes:

Messenger at Mercury

Venus Express

Cassini at Saturn

Mars from Orbiters

Rovers and Phoenix

Galileo at Jupiter

Uranus and Neptune

Asteroids

Dwarf Planets

Comets

New solar system DVD

Features 9 programs:

Introduction (summary)

Looks at the origin of the Solar System, then describes

the Sun and each of the planets.

Mercury (Messenger)

The latest from the Messenger flybys, with news of craters,

basins and the magnetic field.

Venus (Express)

The latest discoveries about the clouds of Venus, plus radar

views of the surface from Magellan.

The Earth (and Moon)

Views of the Earth from Space Australian landforms and the Moon including ESA’s Smart 1 probe.

Mars (Rovers & Phoenix)

Images from a range of orbiters plus Spirit & Opportunity on the surface and the Phoenix lander.

Jupiter (Galileo)

Images of the giant planet and its four large moons Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto.

Saturn (Cassini)

Atmospheric storms plus views of the rings and moons including the ESA Huygens lander on Titan.

Uranus (Voyager 2)

Hubble and Voyager views of Uranus, its dark rings and moons including a spectacular Miranda.

Neptune (Voyager 2)

Looks at the 1989 encounter with the outermost planet, its dark rings and enigmatic moon Triton.

BONUS PROGRAMS:

The Sun (discoveries from the Soho and Ulysses missions)

Asteroids (NEAR mission to Eros and the ESA Rosetta probe)

Dwarf Planets (new Horizons at Pluto, plus other minor bodies)

Comets (ESA Rosetta probe plus views of comets in the sky)

Region: 0 (all regions) PAL

Format: 4:3

Language: English

Running Time: 122 minutes

Made in Australia by Astrovisuals,

in conjunction with the European Space Agency (ESA).

$16.00 (includes postage)

All the highlights from 50 years of manned spaceflight:

- Apollo missions to the Moon including first landing

- Early rocket programs “Space shuttle *Earth views

- International Space Station *Future Missions

Over two hours viewing, featuring the following programs:

NASA – 50 years, 10 mins

Neil Armstrong presents a series of clips summarising the first five decades of NASA space missions.

PROJECT MERCURY, 7 mins

Classic cold war relic looking at America’s first astronauts – the first “free men” in space.

GEMINI PROGRAM, 8 mins

These two-man flights developed meeting and docking procedures and featured the first spacewalks.

APOLLO 11, 14 min

Looks at the drama of the first landing on the Moon, the historic first steps and lift off to return.

APOLLO HIGHLIGHTS, 15 min

Features the major incidents and discoveries from the Moon missions Apollo 8, 13, 14 and 17

SKYLAB SPACE STATION, 5 min

Life on board America’s first space station, plus an amazing demonstration of acrobatics.

SPACE SHUTTLE, 12 min

Astronauts describe the launch of the Shuttle & show the humorous possibilities of weightlessness.

INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, 9 min

Living and working in space, plus the history and future of the station.

FUTURE MISSIONS, 5min

Animation of possible future manned missions, such as landing on the Moon or an asteroid.

BONUS PROGRAMS:

- Astronauts’ Slideshow (the best still images sets to music) 9 min

- The Earth from Space (footage from orbit set to music) 9 min

- Mars Exploration Rovers (animation of launch and landing) 8 min

Region: (all regions) PAL

Format: 16:9 Widescreen

Language: English

Subtitles: English

Running time: 124 minutes

All images and footage courtesy of NASA

Made in Australia by Astrovisuals

3. THE UNIVERSE DVD

Produced in 2008. this DVD features all the latest discoveries about the
Universe: star clusters, nebulae, galaxies, extra-solar planets, stellar evolution, Dark Matter, the Big Bang and evolution of the Cosmos.
The first six programs are narrated titles.
Extra programs feature music only.

All the latest discoveries about the Cosmos:

- Star Clusters and Nebulae

- Extra-Solar Planets

- Stellar Evolution: Supernovas and Black Holes

- Distant Galaxies

- Dark Matter

- Telescopes

Features the following six narrated programs:

STAR CLUSTERS --12 min

Explores open clusters of stars then looks at globular clusters including Omega Centauri.

LIFE OF A STAR --9 min

Looks at starbirth, nuclear fusion, red giants, white dwarfs, supenovae and black holes.

NEBULAE --12 min

Describes the birthplace of stars. Includes Eta Carinae, the Veil Nebula and extra-solar planets.

GALAXIES --13 min

First introduces the basic types of galaxies, then looks at barred spirals and the galaxy M74.

THE COSMOS --16 min

Discoveries about dark matter, a fossil galaxy and a series of colliding galaxies.

TELESCOPES --14 min

Looks at the history of the telescope from Galileo to modern instruments including Hubble.

Also features the following three bonus programs with background music only:

BEST OF HUBBLE 1 --7 min

The best animation and moveies.

BEST OF HUBBLE 2 --10 min

The best Hubble still images.

THE OUTBACK SKY --9 min

Photos of the Southern sky.

Images and animation supplied by NASA and European Space Agency (ESA).

Hubblecasts are high definition vodcasts produced by the ESA/Hubble team and presented by Dr Joe Liske.

Region: 0 (all regions) PAL

Format: 4:3

Language: English

Running time: 110 minutes

Made in Australia by Astroviusals.

In conjunction with the European Space Agency (ESA)

$16.00 (includes postage)

4. HUBBLE, 15 YEARS OF DISCOVERY DVD

Presented by Bob Fosbury

HUBBLE

15 YEARS OF DISCOVERY

Features the following nine programs:

THE HUBBLE STORY, 10 mins – History of the telescope from the first idea to the launch, problems with the mirror and repair.

HUBBLE UP CLOSE, 5 mins – Looks at the optics and instruments on the telescope and how data is transmitted to the ground.

PLANETARY TALES, 9 mins – Views of our Solar System, including Mars, Saturn and the comet impact on Jupiter.

THE LIVES OF STARS, 12 mins – From their birth in nebulae through to the end of their lives as red giants and supernovae.

COSMIC COLLISIONS, 8 mins – Looks at the number of stars in the universe and their density, plus structure of galaxies.

MONSTERS IN SPACE, 10 mins – Discoveries about black holes, gamma ray bursts and the possibility of wormholes.

GRAVITATIONAL ILLUSIONS, 6 mins – Looks at the expansion of the Universe after the big bang, plus gravitational lensing.

BIRTH AND DEATH OF THE UNIVERSE, 6 mins – Explores the big bang, Hubble constant and future of the Cosmos.

THE END OF TIME, 10 mins – Hubble Deep Field – distant galaxies reveal what the early Universe might have looked like.

DVD made in Australia by Astrovisuals

The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA

Format: 4:3

Region: 0 (All regions)

Running time: 83 minutes + 50 minutes Bonus

$16.00 (includes postage)

5. VOGAGE TO THE PLANETS

(ABC series)

A TRAVELLER’S GUIDE TO LEAVING EARTH

Narrated by Richard Roxburgh

“Stunning stuff”

“A majestic series”

$32.50 (includes postage)

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to leave Earth?

To gaze back at the receding blue gem that is our home planet and go where no human has gone before?

What strange sights await you?

What dangers must you avoid?

With five decades of space exploration behind us, we can now begin to answer these questions.

Blast off with VOYAGE TO THE PLANETS, a six-part series that explores the pleasures and pitfalls of travel to the very alien planets of our Solar System.

This excellent series, recently seen on ABC TV, is a traveller’s guide to leaving earth, narrated by Richard Roxburgh. Features some great graphics and images of the Solar system. Two disc set has six 50 minute programs:

1. Mars

2. Jupiter

3. Saturn

4. Uranus and Neptune

5. Venus and Mercury

6. Pluto and Beyond

voyage to the planets

Run time: 313 mins

NASA DVDS - play in all regions

This multimedia title was authored in Australia.

Brilliant colour photography of star clusters, nebulae and galaxies.

Commentary and diagrams explain the evolution of stars and their final products such as pulsars or black holes.

Curriculum resource with study guide.

For use: - in the classroom

- in the library

- at home

World renowned star photographer David Malin, of the Anglo-Australian Observatory, along with others reveal the universe in brilliant colour.

The evolution of the star is described from its birth in a gaseous nebulae through to the final stages of its life as a white dwarf, supernova, pulsar or black hole.

Additional sequences trace the history of astronomy and the development of optical and radio telescopes.

Includes:

- commentary

- study notes

- diagrams

- CD quality audio

$12.90 (includes postage)

This Kodal Portfolio CD can be played on:

TV - Photo CD player

- CD-i player

Computer Mac or PC - CD-ROM drive

Minimum computer requirements:

* Macintosh Computers - Macintosh LC, 2MB RAM, 1MB free disc space, 8 bit colour card, system 6.0.5 or higher, CD-ROM XA

* IBM PC and Compatible - Windows 3.1, 4MB RAM, 4MB free disc space, VGA display, MPC Compatible CD-ROM XA

Produced by Educational Media International

Assistance provided by Kodak Australlasia Pty Ltd.

2. STARS & GALAXIES CD & DVD SET

2 DISC SET which includes,

1. STARS and GALAXIES Multimedia CD

plus,

2. THE UNIVERSE DVD

Stars & Galaxies 2 Disc Set

1. STARS and GALAXIES Multimedia CD

This multimedia title was authored in Australia.

Brilliant colour photography of star clusters, nebulae and galaxies.

Commentary and diagrams explain the evolution of stars and their final products such as pulsars or black holes.

Curriculum resource with study guide.

For use: - in the classroom

- in the library

- at home

World renowned star photographer David Malin, of the Anglo-Australian Observatory, along with others reveal the universe in brilliant colour.

The evolution of the star is described from its birth in a gaseous nebulae through to the final stages of its life as a white dwarf, supernova, pulsar or black hole.

Additional sequences trace the history of astronomy and the development of optical and radio telescopes.

Includes:

- commentary

- study notes

- diagrams

- CD quality audio

This Kodal Portfolio CD can be played on:

TV - Photo CD player

- CD-i player

Computer Mac or PC - CD-ROM drive

Minimum computer requirements:

* Macintosh Computers - Macintosh LC, 2MB RAM, 1MB free disc space, 8 bit colour card, system 6.0.5 or higher, CD-ROM XA

* IBM PC and Compatible - Windows 3.1, 4MB RAM, 4MB free disc space, VGA display, MPC Compatible CD-ROM XA

2. THE UNIVERSE DVD

Produced in 2008, this DVD features all the latest discoveries about the Universe: star clusters, nebulae, galaxies, extra-solar planets, stellar evolution, Dark Matter, the Big Bang and evolution of the Cosmos. The first six programs are narrated titles. Extra programs feature music only.

ll the latest discoveries about the Cosmos:

- Star Clusters and Nebulae

- Extra-Solar Planets

- Stellar Evolution: Supernovas and Black Holes

- Distant Galaxies

- Dark Matter

- Telescopes

Features the following six narrated programs:

STAR CLUSTERS --12 min

Explores open clusters of stars then looks at globular clusters including Omega Centauri.

LIFE OF A STAR --9 min

Looks at starbirth, nuclear fusion, red giants, white dwarfs, supenovae and black holes.

NEBULAE --12 min

Describes the birthplace of stars. Includes Eta Carinae, the Veil Nebula and extra-solar planets.

GALAXIES --13 min

First introduces the basic types of galaxies, then looks at barred spirals and the galaxy M74.

THE COSMOS --16 min

Discoveries about dark matter, a fossil galaxy and a series of colliding galaxies.

TELESCOPES --14 min

Looks at the history of the telescope from Galileo to modern instruments including Hubble.

Also features the following three bonus programs with background music only:

BEST OF HUBBLE 1 --7 min

The best animation and moveies.

BEST OF HUBBLE 2 --10 min

The best Hubble still images.

THE OUTBACK SKY --9 min

Photos of the Southern sky.

Trailers - Titles in this series: Spaceflight/New Solar System/Universe/Hubble

Images and animation supplied by NASA and European Space Agency (ESA).

Hubblecasts are high definition vodcasts produced by the ESA/Hubble team and presented by Dr Joe Liske.

Region: 0 (all regions) PAL

Format: 4:3

Language: English

Running time: 110 minutes

Made in Australia by Astroviusals.

In conjunction with the European Space Agency (ESA)

$15.95 (includes postage)

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SCIENCE DVDS

                  - Access to the NOVA Web site
                   - Scene selection
                   - Closed captions

This DVD requires a MULTIREGIONAL DVD PLAYER for use in Australia.

Killer Quake!

Metropolitan Los Angeles is sitting on ground zero. Slicing under the highrises of downtown is a network of potentially deadly faults that could trigger the nation's most devastating natural disaster. On January 17, 1994, a previously unknown fault convulses beneath Northridge. It was the most destructive earthquake in modern Los Angeles history. NOVA takes viewers from urban trench sites to the top of the Santa Susanna Mountains, in search of clues to where nature will strike next.

Special DVD Features Include:

- printable materials for educators

- access to the NOVA Web site

- Scene selection

- Closed captions

Approximate running time 56 minutes.

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$ 34.95 (includes postage)

Killer Quake

Planet Earth

AS SEEN IN IMAX THEATRES

"The closest you'll ever get to a Volcano."

"VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES

Ring Of Fire takes you heart-stoppingly close to the great circle of volcanoes and seismic activitiy that rings the Pacific Ocean. This award winning film has been seen by millions of people at large-screen IMAX theatres worldwide. Ring Of Fire is the story of these immense tectonic forces and the half-billion people that coexist with them every day around the fiery boundary of the Pacific Rim.

FEEL THE HEAT

You'll feel the heat as cameras take you to the birth of a new volcano in Chile, and relive history with rare and spectacular images of the infamous 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helen's. You will march with the inhabitants of Sakurajima, Japan, as they participate in their annual evacuation drill, and witness one of the frequent ash eruptions of the very active volcano. A whirlwind computer animation sequence gives you a ride through the center of the earth to see the process of the geological forces that cause a volcanic eruption or earthquake. The devastating results of these forces are witnessed through the scenes of the 1989 earthquake that rocked the city of San Francisco."

Running time: 40 minutes

Compatible with NTSC DVD players worldwide.

Ring of Fire

SAVAGE EARTH

OUT OF THE INFERNO

Narrated by Stacy Keach

Explore the explosive tics and fiery spasms of our not so terra firma!

"In the last 500 years, nearly 300 million people have perished in earthquakes. Time and again, volcanic eruptions have destroyed cities, regions, and even entire countres. From the legendary fury of Mt. Vesuvius to the devastating convulsions of Kobe, Japan, Savage Earth tells the stories of these great natural disasters, the scientists who struggle to understand and predict them, and the people whose lives are forever changed by their merciless force.

From the vast, swirling mudflows that sweep down from melted mountain glaciers to the boiling pyroclastic ash-clouds that choked the life from ancient Pompeii, examine the terrifying and often unpredictable variety of a volcano's moods.

Today, more than 500 volcanoes, are said to be in a dangerous and volatile state. Travel to the most deadly of them: Vesuvius, Etna, Popocatapetl, Pinatubo and Unzen. Also journey to Colombia where the 1985 eruption of Nevada Del Ruiz wiped out a village, claimed 25,000 lives and left a 13-year old girl trapped for days in volcanic mud packed with dead bodies."

Approx. 60 mins

This DVD requires a MULTIREGIONAL DVD PLAYER for use in Australia.

One of the most ambitious and exciting scientific theories ever posed - one that may be the long-sought "Theory of Everything" - gets a masterful and lavishly animated explanation that will excite scientists and non-scientists, alike. Beginning with simple and clear explanations of major concepts of physics, including gravity, electromagnetism, and relativity, The Elegant Universe illuminates one of the most revolutionary theories in physics today.

Known as string theory or superstring theory, this startling idea proposes that the fundmental ingredients of nature are inconceivably tiny strands of energy, whose different modes of vibration underlie everything that happens in the universe. The theory attemps to unite the laws of the large - general relativity - and the laws of the small - quantum mechanics - breaking a conceptual logjam that has frustrated scientists for nearly a century.

If string theory proves correct, the universe we see obscures a reality that is far richer and more complex than anyone every imagined - a universe witb numerous hidden dimensions, a universe in which the fabric of space can rip and tear, a universe that may be but one of many parallel universes.

Join host Brian Greene, professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University and the best-selling author of The Elegant Universe, for this exciting and in-depth exploration of the groundbreaking new theory.

Special DVD Features Include:

- Bonus video - how the animation was created

- Multidimensional Math activity

- The Making of the Elegant Universe activity

- Printable materials for educators

- Access to The Elegant Universe Web site

- Excerpt from the best-selling book

- Closed captions and video description

This DVD requires a MULTIREGIONAL DVD PLAYER for use in Australia.

Elegant Universe

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ASTRONOMY & SCIENCE DVDS

4. HUBBLE, 15 YEARS OF DISCOVERY DVD

Presented by Bob Fosbury

NASA DVDS - play in all regions