Movie | Encounters in the Milky Way

This event is bilingual.

Just as the planets orbit the Sun, our Solar System continues its own journey through our Galaxy. Explore the Milky Way, discover its history, its future, and the dynamic transformations constantly taking place within it in the new film presented by the Planetarium | Space for Life, “Encounters in the Milky Way”, opening October 6. The film is produced by the American Museum of Natural History in New York, with major support from and in partnership with NASA.

SYNOPSIS
Discover the chance encounters that have shaped our place in the universe. Reaching billions of years into the past and peering millions of years into the future, Encounters in the Milky Way is a time-traveling journey about the cosmic movements that shape our galactic neighbourhood.

In this show narrated by Chilean-American actor Pedro Pascal (the French version is narrated by actress Schelby Jean-Baptiste), witness spectacular moments in our solar system’s past and future, including the paths of stars, comets, interstellar debris, and visually stunning gas and dust clouds—and, visualized for the first time, a dramatic, ongoing merger of our galaxy with a smaller satellite galaxy.

Developed by a team that includes astronomers, science visualization experts, and artists, Encounters in the Milky Way is made possible by data from one of the most transformative projects of the past century: the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, dubbed the “billion-star survey” for mapping the precise positions, distances, and motions of nearly 2 billion stars in our galaxy.