Eternal Sky Film About Jim Simons and the Simons Observatory Now Streaming

Simons Foundation, May 2025

“I’m fascinated with beginnings,” Simons Foundation co-founder Jim Simons says in Eternal Sky, a documentary now available for streaming. The film, directed by Debra Kellner, chronicles the lead-up to the construction of the Simons Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert. That project, designed and built by an international collaboration funded and brought together by Simons, aims to answer an enduring question: How did our universe come to be?