The Southern Cross and the Largest Telescope in the World | Children of the Stars (6/10)

How did the Universe and life begin? We shall visit ALMA, the largest radio-telescope in the world, where research is carried out to find out the origins of the Universe through 66 giant antennae placed in the Chilean high plateau. We’ll hear and dance a “cueca” dedicated to the Big Bang, played by a Chilean folklore group, and we shall look for life under extreme conditions in the almost Martian red waters of the Rio Tinto river, in Spain. At the La Silla Observatory, in Chile, we wonder whether it is possible that life on Earth was brought by a comet, and we shall also watch a mapuche indigenous community during the ritual del We Tripantu, that coincides with the Winter Solstice and marks the re-birth of life. ------- Chapters ▷ 0:00 - Intro ▷ 01:59 - The Origins of the Universe | Children of the Stars (5/10) ▷ 49:29 - Credits ------- ------- Children of the Stars is a voyage through the history of the people of America and their vision of the sky, since the earliest civilizations until

Who watches the sky for any likely threats? We start by visiting the La Sagra Observatory in Spain, in search of near-Earth asteroids. As a protection from astronomical catastrophes, a U.S. businessman builds underground bunkers. Will life be found in other planets? We shall ask children in Bogotá and find out through Spanish astronaut Pedro Duque what life is like in space. We shall also visit the largest Mexican observatory in San Pedro Martir, and get to know the project to build the largest optical telescope in the world, which will be installed in the North of Chile. We shall finish our journey at the Mexican ruins of Bonampak, where father and son will convey to us the importance of guarding the knowledge of our ancestors. ------- Chapters ▷ 0:00 - Intro ▷ 02:16 - Future of the Universe | Children of the Stars (9/10) ▷ 50:56 - Credits ------- ------- Children of the Stars is a voyage through the history of the people of America and their vision of the sky, since the earliest civilizations until the present. In

In the Spanish Canary Islands, we shall attend a session of astro-photography to obtain a spectacular photograph of the Milky Way. But the best images of our galaxy are obtained with VISTA, the infrared telescope located in the North of Chile, which we shall visit. In the Amazon region of Brazil, we shall visit an indigenous planetarium and we shall follow the Peabirú road, an ancient indigenous track which simulated the Milky Way. In order to watch it with our bear eyes, we shall visit the first Starlight reserve in South America, located in Fray Jorge, in the North of Chile, which guarantees no light pollution, a problem that also affects animals who are guided by the sky, such as sea turtles, which we shall see in Florida. ------- Chapters ▷ 0:00 - Intro ▷ 02:12 - The Milky Way | Children of the Stars (7/10) ▷ 49:57 - Credits ------- ------- Children of the Stars is a voyage through the history of the people of America and their vision of the sky, since the earliest civilizations until the present.

In this chapter, we shall travel to Chichen Itzá to find out about the knowledge held by the Mayas about Venus and the temple devoted to it: the Kukulkán. We’ll listen to a rock group, Sak Tzevul who sing about Maya concepts in ancient languages. We shall also visit the ancient Maya city of Uxmal. We then travel to the Achaya Observatory in Santiago de Chile, to take photographs of the conjunction of three planets: Venus, Jupiter and Mercury, and we shall see how the concept of Venus has inspired our arts and influenced the theatre. We shall also visit the Death Valley in California, the hottest environment on Earth, similar to that of Venus. Finally, we shall get to know the Venus Project, an initiative that seems almost like science fiction, whose goal is to re-think the cities for the future. ------- Chapters ▷ 0:00 - Intro ▷ 02:19 - Venus | Children of the Stars (3/10) ▷ 50:00 - Credits ------- ------- Children of the Stars is a voyage through the history of the people of America and

In this chapter we shall visit the millenary city of Chan Chan, in the North of Peru, which was built by the Chimú culture to worship the Moon and where human sacrifices were held and devoted to the Moon. We shall meet an astro-photographer from San Francisco who is obsessed with the idea of taking the best picture of the Moon and, in Santiago de Chile, we shall ride on bicycles in a poetical and romantic event, namely cycling under the moon. In the Main Temple of Mexico City we shall discover how the Aztecs could measure time following the Moon. We shall see that this satellite has a bearing on the life of native wayú women, in Colombia, through a sacred ritual. We end our journey in Houston, where we shall see the spacecraft that took men to the Moon. ------- Chapters ▷ 0:00 - Intro ▷ 02:22 - The Moon | Children of the Stars (10/10) ▷ 49:53 - Credits ------- ------- Children of the Stars is a voyage through the history of the people of America and

In this chapter, a physicist from Uruguay tells us about the vision of Mars that science fiction and comics have conveyed to us and wonders whether mankind is ready to coexist with other types of life, such as might be found on a planet like Mars. In order to research the likelihood of life on Mars, NASA has carried out experiments in the Atacama Desert, which we shall visit, since this is the most similar place on Earth to the red planet. We will become acquainted with the Curiosity, a robot sent to Mars, and meet a Colombian astronaut who has trained to travel to the red planet. Finally, we shall visit a factory of rockets with state-of-the-art technology, which may soon take us to Mars. ------- Chapters ▷ 0:00 - Intro ▷ 02:13 - Mars | Children of the Stars (2/10) ▷ 51:19 - Credits ------- ------- Children of the Stars is a voyage through the history of the people of America and their vision of the sky, since the earliest civilizations until the present. In this crossing between