HUBBLE IMAX FILM TAKES VIEWERS ON RIDE THROUGH SPACE AND TIME (STScI-PR04-16)

FOR RELEASE: 9:00 am (EDT) June 24, 2004

CONTACT:
Donna Weaver
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD
(Phone: 410-338-4493; E-mail: )

Frank Summers
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD
(Phone: 410-338-4749; E-mail: )

John Stoke
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD
(Phone: 410-338-4394; E-mail: )

PRESS RELEASE NO.: STScI-PR04-16


HUBBLE IMAX FILM TAKES VIEWERS ON RIDE THROUGH SPACE AND TIME

Take a virtual ride to the outer reaches of the universe and explore 10
billion years of galactic history, from fully formed and majestic spiral
galaxies to disheveled collections of stars just beginning to form.

This unforgettable cosmic journey is presented in the award-winning IMAX
short film, "Hubble: Galaxies Across Space and Time," which transforms
images and data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope into a voyage that
sweeps viewers across the cosmos. Using the 650-megapixel-mosaic image
created by the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS), more
than 11,000 galaxy images were extracted and assembled into an accurate
3-D model for the three-minute movie. The large-format film was created
by a team of Hubble image and visualization experts in the Office of
Public Outreach at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in
Baltimore, Md. The film was directed by Frank Summers, an astrophysicist
and science visualization specialist.

To see and read more, please visit:
http://hubblesite.org/news/2004/16
http://www.lfca.org
http://hubblesource.stsci.edu/exhibi...film/index.php

The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) is operated by the
Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA), for
NASA, under contract with the Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt,
MD. The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation
between NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA). DKP/70MM Productions,
Inc., a subsidiary of IMAX Corporation, donated their services and
created a negative and first print from the Hubble digital frames.

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