Hubble: Galaxies Across Space and Time

An IMAX Short Film

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News

Hubble Press Release - On June 24, 2004, the Hubble press office put out a press release entitled "Hubble IMAX Film Takes Viewers on Ride Through Space and Time" .

LFCA "Best Short" Award - At the Large Format Cinema Association's 2004 Annual Film Festival in Los Angeles, "Hubble: Galaxies Across Space and Time" was voted "Best Short Film". The LFCA membership consists of large format theater owners as well as producers of large format films and equipment.

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General
Title:	Hubble: Galaxies Across Space and Time
Description:	A three minute large format film exploring the diversity, distribution, and evolution of galaxies in the universe. The IMAX short film "Hubble: Galaxies Across Space and Time" transforms images and data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope into a voyage that sweeps viewers across the universe and back into cosmic history. The film opens with looming images of two mature galaxies that are relatively nearby Earth, and then pans through the vibrant and diverse panorama of thousands of galaxies in an image from the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey. The ensuing 3-D journey through these galaxies provides more than just a new perspective in space. It also takes the audience back in time. Because light takes time to journey across space, the galaxies farther away from Earth are seen further back in cosmic history. The virtual voyage reveals galaxies as they appeared billions of years ago, when they were still in the process of forming.

General

Title:

Hubble: Galaxies Across Space and Time

Description:

A three minute large format film exploring the diversity, distribution, and evolution of galaxies in the universe.

The IMAX short film "Hubble: Galaxies Across Space and Time" transforms images and data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope into a voyage that sweeps viewers across the universe and back into cosmic history.

The film opens with looming images of two mature galaxies that are relatively nearby Earth, and then pans through the vibrant and diverse panorama of thousands of galaxies in an image from the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey. The ensuing 3-D journey through these galaxies provides more than just a new perspective in space. It also takes the audience back in time. Because light takes time to journey across space, the galaxies farther away from Earth are seen further back in cosmic history. The virtual voyage reveals galaxies as they appeared billions of years ago, when they were still in the process of forming.

Visualization

Hardware: PSSC Labs Linux Cluster (30 nodes, dual Athlon CPUs, 1 GB RAM), Linux workstations, Windows graphics workstations
STScI Visualization Wall

Software: Perl, CFITSIO, libtiff, Photoshop, IRAF, Maya, Shake, Chromium, NCSA Pixel Blaster

Notes: See the production notes for details.

Visualization
Hardware:	PSSC Labs Linux Cluster (30 nodes, dual Athlon CPUs, 1 GB RAM), Linux workstations, Windows graphics workstations STScI Visualization Wall
Software:	Perl, CFITSIO, libtiff, Photoshop, IRAF, Maya, Shake, Chromium, NCSA Pixel Blaster
Notes:	See the production notes for details.

Source

Source URL: http://terpsichore.stsci.edu/~summers/viz/hgast/

Credits: A production of the Space Telescope Science Institute.
Direction - Frank Summers
Narration - Barbara Feldon
Music - Jonn Serrie
Production - Greg Bacon, Lynn Barranger, Ann Feild, Leigh Fletcher, Lisa Frattare, John Godfrey, Zoltan Levay, Bryan Preston, John Stoke, Frank Summers, Ed Weibe
Support - Lucy Albert, Ian Griffin, Ray Villard, The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey Team, Jim O'Leary (Maryland Science Center)
Digital and 15/70 Post Production - David Keighley Productions 70 MM, Inc. (An IMAX Company)

Source
Source URL:	http://terpsichore.stsci.edu/~summers/viz/hgast/
Credits:	A production of the Space Telescope Science Institute. Direction - Frank Summers Narration - Barbara Feldon Music - Jonn Serrie Production - Greg Bacon, Lynn Barranger, Ann Feild, Leigh Fletcher, Lisa Frattare, John Godfrey, Zoltan Levay, Bryan Preston, John Stoke, Frank Summers, Ed Weibe Support - Lucy Albert, Ian Griffin, Ray Villard, The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey Team, Jim O'Leary (Maryland Science Center) Digital and 15/70 Post Production - David Keighley Productions 70 MM, Inc. (An IMAX Company)

Images

Thumbnail	Filename	File Size
Hubble on IMAX	hgast_galaxies_audience_640x620.jpg	34 kb
Spiral Galaxy Evolution	spiral_evolution_1024x768.jpg	68 kb
Sombrero Galaxy	hgast_imax_sombrero_galaxy_0510_1404x1024.jpg	80 kb
Galaxy Field	hgast_imax_galaxy_field_0970_1404x1024.jpg	36 kb
GOODS Overview	hgast_imax_goods_overview_1550_1404x1024.jpg	44 kb
Galaxy Fly-through	hgast_imax_galaxy_fly_through_2140_1404x1024.jpg	40 kb
Credits	hgast_imax_credits_crop_1024x768.jpg	72 kb