Out There: The Quest for Extrasolar Worlds

(Duration 30 min – for adults and children 10+)

For thousands of years, mankind thought that the Earth was the centre of the Universe. Thanks to our curiosity, imagination and urge to explore, we now know that planets like our Earth are nothing special in the cosmos. The Sun is just one ordinary star among hundreds of billions in our galaxy, the Milky Way. With the world’s most powerful telescopes, we are able to explore more and more of the Universe. What we have found so far has surpassed even the wildest expectations of scientists as well as authors of science fiction. Most stars have planets — it turns out they are more common than we thought.

A huge diversity of different worlds is out there, just waiting to be discovered.

Available languages: English, German, French, Italian, Swedish, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Urdu

A production by The Swiss Museum of Transport Planetarium in cooperation with NCCR PlanetS and the European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Credit:
Director and Executive Producer: Marc Horat
Audio Recording and Postproduction: Ueli Thalmann
Music: Patrick Habermacher & Ueli Thalmann
Narration Editing: Lukas Thalmann
Recorded at: Thalmann Synchrontonstudio, Lucerne, Switzerland
Production Support: Ueli Thalmann, Lars Lindberg Christensen (ESO), Guido Schwarz (NCCR PlanetS/Universität Bern), Willy Benz (NCCR PlanetS/Universität Bern), Pierre Bratschi (NCCR PlanetS/Université de Genève)
Storyline: Marc Horat

Proof Reading German: Ueli Thalmann, Iris Kronenberg and Willy Benz, Christoph Mordasini, Sylviane Blum (Universität Bern/NCCR PlanetS)
German Voices: Irina Schönen & Thomas C. Gass

English Script and Proof Reading: Tom Barrat, Lars Lindberg Christensen, Paola Amico (ESO) and Marc Horat
English Voices: Anne Wilde & Trevor John Roling

French Translation: Lionel Ruiz (Planétarium de Marseille), Frédéric Graf (Stardome Aigle), Jean-Yves Marchal (Université de Strasbourg) & Pierre Valat (GAP 47 Montayral)
French Voices: Jeanne Ferreux & Olivier Vuille

Italian Translation: Cristiana Cattaneo & Matteo Soldi (Planetario e Osservatorio Astronomico di Cà del Monte)
Italian Voices: Christiane De Micheli & Alessandro Tini

Mandarin version produced by: China Science and Technology Museum, Bejing

Russian
Produced by: Planetarium of Kazan Federal University
Translation: Ildar Garaev
Editor: Dr. Roman Zhuchkov, Associate Prof. of Kazan Federal University Astronomy and Space Geodesy Department
Sound: Ildar Garaev
Narrators: Sergey Golovkin, Endzhe Badretdinova, Marat Zagidullin, Venera Berdnikova

Urdu Translation:
Supervisor/Producer: Shoaib Shamsi, Department of Physics, Lahore University of Management Sciences

3D Modeling and Texturing:
Probes, Images, Comics & Books: Luis Calçada (ESO)
CHEOPS model: provided by the European Space Agency (ESA), Textures by Luis Calçada (ESO)
Real time astronomy models and digital starfields: Digistar 5 from Evans & Sutherland
Kuiper belt (L7 data): Justin Bartel (Science Museum of Viginia), Kavelaars et al. (2009), Petit et al (2010) & Gladman et al. (2010)
Open Clusters: Dias W. S., Alessi B. S., Moitinho A. and Lépine J. R. D. (2002)
Globular Clusters: William E. Harris, McMaster University
Tully Database: Brent Tully, Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii
The Digital Universe: American Museum of Natural History

Image Credits and Sources:
Panorama Gornergrat, Zermatt: Markus Eichenberger
Panorama Bern: Jürg Gosswiler
360° footage Genève & Bern: Marc Horat
NASA, ESA & ESO
MARINER 4 images: NASA/JPL
MRO, Pathfinder, MSL, Spirit & Opportunity: NASA/JPL
Mars Express: ESA
Mars map: Giovanni Schiaparelli
Exoplanet images: ESO VLT, ALMA & La Silla Observatories, NASA, ESA & P. Kalas (University of California, Berkeley and SETI Institute)
War of the worlds illustrations: Alvim Corrêa

Videos:
VLT & ALMA Timelapses: ESO/T.Matsopoulos
Exoplanet Detection Methods: NASA Kepler Mission/Dana Berry, ESO/L. Calçada
Exoplanet Dataset: PHL (University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo, 2016)