Screening of The Hunt for Planet B

350 Southwest A Street,Bentonville AR 72712

20 August, 2022

Description

The Hunt for Planet B captures the human drama behind NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. The telescope launched in December 2021and released its first science images on July 12, 2022. The Webb is the most ambitious space observatory ever built focusin on infrared astronomy. The film interweaves the creation of this massive machine with the story of a pioneering group of female scientists on a quest to find life beyond our solar system. What begins as a real-time scientific adventure turns into a deep meditation on our place in the universe. On the brink of seeing farther out than ever before, we find ourselves looking back at our own imperiled planet with new eyes.