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Cosmic Celluloid "BLAST!"
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Directed by Paul Devlin
USA, 2008
Color
78 Minutes
Show Times:
Sat., Dec. 5 7:00 PM
Sun., Dec. 6 5:00 PM
BLAST! is astrophysics Indiana Jones style, a spectacular and suspenseful story of space exploration! Five-time Emmy winner, Paul Devlin, follows his brother, Mark Devlin, Ph.D. to five continents, from the Arctic to the Antarctic to launch a revolutionary new telescope on a NASA high-altitude balloon. They hope to look back in time to reveal a hidden universe of never-before-seen starburst galaxies. From catastrophic failure to transcendent triumph, their adventure reveals the surprising real life of scientists. BLAST! is an Official Project of the International Year of Astronomy 2009. It was awarded the 2007 NYSCA Individual Artist Grant, a Best Documentary Award at Vedere la Scienza Festival, Milan, Italy, and was coproduced in association with BBC Storyville, Discovery Canada, SVT Sweden, and YLE Finland.The BLAST! scientists recently published their first results in the prestigious science journal Nature, making a major astronomical discovery which generated worldwide press attention.
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