Enfants du soleil

Where do we come from? How did the Sun and the Earth come into being? We have finally reached the point where science can offer more and more precise even surprising answers. Nature has a significantly greater imagination than man! Since the dawn of space exploration, we have learnt more about our solar system and its origins in a generation than in forty centuries. In the place where we expected uniformity, we have discovered the greatest diversity. André Brahic, who discovered the rings of Neptune, presents the multiple facets of the solar system and explores four and a half billion years of its history. The planets are the sisters of the Sun. We are children of time and the stars. Are we alone in the Universe? Astronomers have started to detect other planets around a number of nearby stars. They hope to soon discover other Earths...

Des mythes primitifs à la recherche moderne - Promenade dans le système solaire - La mesure des âges et les méthodes de datation - Atomes, molécules et briques primitives - Le ballet des astres - D'autres étoiles ? D'autres planètes ? D'autres pistes ? - Comment le système solaire ne s'est pas formé - Un scénario des premiers instants - La formation de la Lune et des petits corps - L'évolution de la Terre et l'apparition de la vie - Sommes-nous seuls ?Le futur