DISCOVERY CHANNEL TO PREMEIRE ALL-NEW DOCUMENTATRY FILM TELESCOPE IN 2016
TELESCOPE Airs as Part of a Special Weekend of Science Programming on both Discovery Channel and Science Channel
October 21, 2015
The White House announced Discovery Channel will premiere an all-new documentary film, TELESCOPE, which will air as part of a special weekend of science programming on both Discovery Channel and Science Channel in early 2016.
As part of White House Astronomy Night yesterday, which brought together scientists, engineers, and visionaries from astronomy and the space industry to share their experiences with students and teachers at the White House, the White House made the announcement of Discovery Channel’s premiere of TELESCOPE in advance of event. Since the launch of Educate to Innovate, Discovery Communications has shown a sustained commitment across its brands to promote student interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
TELESCOPE will take Discovery Channel and Science Channel audiences behind the making of the James Webb Space Telescope, the latest innovation in the tool’s 400-year history. The Hubble Space Telescope, which has determined the age of the universe, confirmed the existence of black holes, and probed the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star, turns 25 this year. For everything Hubble has revealed, even more remains beyond its field of vision. A new generation has been inspired to design and build the greatest telescope yet – NASA's James Webb Space Telescope - which is 100 times more powerful than Hubble, and will be a veritable time machine capable of taking us back to the origins of our universe and of identifying the signature of life on planets far outside our solar system.
With unprecedented access to the people and technologies that power its creation, TELESCOPE will take viewers into the high-stakes mission of building the Webb Telescope and reveal numerous firsts, including the testing of never-before-seen technologies, as the process and allure of the unknown and the deep and abiding drive for greater understanding puts us face to face with the fundamental questions that have haunted us from the beginning of time: where did we come from and how did the universe arise?