Deep Sky

This awe-inspiring documentary tells the story of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, one of the most powerful pieces of technology to capture images of space billions of light years away from Earth. The film pulls back the curtain on how the telescope was built and its high-stakes launch in 2021 into orbit, rocketing one million miles from Earth. Space is like a time machine: by travelling through it, we can see evidence of how stars are born and begin to understand how the universe began.

Deep Sky follows the global mission to build JWST and to launch it into orbit, in an attempt to answer questions that have haunted us since the beginning of time: Where did we come from? How did the universe begin? Are we alone? It also delves into the mysteries of the universe in its search for other lifeforms. Featuring interviews with scientists explaining the different components of the telescope and the significance of its scientific discoveries, we travel to never-before-seen cosmic landscapes, recently discovered exoplanets and planets around other stars, capturing their vast beauty at a scale that can only be experienced on the giant IMAX screen.