这是一部最新、目前为止电视上最好看的宇宙科普纪录片！影片从离我们最近的月球开始，一路引导我们探索太阳系到银河系以至人类所认知的宇宙的“边缘”。细致呈现太阳系八大行星的神奇地貌，奇幻的气象变化，3D制作效果极致真实，带领你逐步走出太阳系，饱览整个宇宙的神奇景象，科幻和天文爱好者绝对不能错过的好片！！
如果我們能夠前往宇宙的邊緣，我們會看見什麼? 是什麼力量凝聚了宇宙，現在有什麼力量導致宇宙的最終毀滅? 國家地理頻道新推出四個特別節目，將帶領觀眾進行跨越宇宙的史詩之旅，詳細觀察恆星如何誕生、宇宙的終極命運、其他行星上的生命、以及最神祕也最駭人的現象：黑洞。這一系列特別節目利用精心設計的電腦合成影像，有效地說明地球之外的環境。宇宙會被徹底撕碎到只剩下最小的基本粒子嗎？或者全部的恆星將逐漸熄滅，只剩下冰冷而且無生命的宇宙？
宇宙之旅JOURNEY TO THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE
超越尼爾阿姆斯壯(Neil Armstrong)遺留在月球的足跡，本節目飛過明亮的金星前往水星。幾乎完全由鐵構成的水星，或許是一較大行星的殘餘。火星是個充斥極端事物的行星：有龍捲風、火山，還有地球上前所未見的峽谷。木星上永久存在的紅色風暴有地球的三倍大，而且已經持續成千上萬年。土星的衛星泰坦，擁有類似地球的地形，但是泰坦星上的河流、湖泊和海洋，並不是由水構成，而是液態甲烷。那裡會存在生命嗎？節目中將帶領觀眾前往宇宙深處，進行一場終極太空之旅。

本片是国际天文年官方影片，國際天文協會為慶祝望遠鏡發明400年，以 1609年望远镜第一次用于天文观测为引子，介绍了人们观测星空的种种手段，以及当今的先进观测技术。是一部探索望遠鏡諸多層面的影片——包含其發展史、科學重要性、技術的突破，還有這項開創性發明幕後的相關人士-其功績與失敗。本片是由歐南天文臺的專業天文學者Joe Liske博士與Lars Lindberg Christensen博士擔綱製作與演出(JoeLiske博士同時也是哈柏太空望遠鏡線上影音廣播影片節目『Hubblecast』的主持人)。

The IMAX "Cosmic Voyage" film was made as a public service with sponsorship by the Smithsonian Air and Space museum. On DVD, borrowed from my local public library, it plays at just over 30 minutes with Morgan Freeman supplying a pleasing narrative. As one would expect from an IMAX film, the image quality is superb and the Dolby 5.1 sound track is very well done. Simulated cosmic explosions shake your walls! That is, if you have a good powered subwoofer in your system.
The film takes a very useful approach to examining the size of the universe, from tiny sub-atomic particles to the vastness of the whole universe. (Fortunately, when God created the Universe he had dispatched a few angels with video cameras at different vantage points so we get to see actual footage from several billion years ago.) The film starts in Venice, where the discovery of the telescope originated, and uses a one-meter hoop as a reference point, then gradually goes larger by powers of 10, e.g. 10 meters, 100, 1000, etc until we can see the whole universe. Then it takes the opposite journey, going smaller by powers of 10 until be see inside sub-atomic particles.
The story is well-woven with beautiful effects created especially for this film. It is entertaining and educational at the same time. All of "oldsters" can enjoy it for the scientific history we are already familiar with, and all the "youngsters" can enjoy it for the educational supplement it provides. Overall a masterful film.
Any numerical "rating" of "Cosmic Voyage" is meaningless. If one is looking for a superb film about our universe and modern theories of its formation, this one is hard to beat. Kudos to IMAX and to the Air and Space Museum.
肉眼只能看见穹苍一角。凝视夜空，但见繁星点点，偶尔一颗流星划破夜空，但你可曾看见恒星死亡前的最后爆发？瞪视双手，你或会看见点点尘垢，但你又可曾看见组成皮肤的原子在颤动？因为眼不能见，我们只能纵驰想像，去探索这个深邃广阔的宇宙。
本片获第六十九届奥斯卡金像奖最佳纪录短片提名.

The Known Universe zooms out from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang.
该短片视角从喜马拉雅开始拉远，穿过数百亿光年，直到大爆炸的遗迹，宇宙的尽头……