Over one million people worldwide have seen the movie BLAST!

25 January 2010

BLAST! is an IYA2009 Special project. Filmmaker Paul Devlin follows the story of his brother, Mark Devlin PhD, as he leads a tenacious team of scientists hoping to figure out how all the galaxies formed by launching a revolutionary new telescope under a NASA high-altitude balloon.

Newly-released ratings show that over one million people have seen the movie, and this number is set to rise significantly in the future.

 

BLAST! Ratings:  

Discovery Canada 43,000
BBC Storyville 125,000
YLE Finland 31,000
SVT Sweden 300,000
VPRO Netherlands 153,000
DR Denmark 73,000
NHK Japan 400,000
 TOTAL  
1,125,000

 

 


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The International Year of Astronomy 2009 is endorsed by the United Nations and the International Council of Science.