Hubble

Hubble: Galaxies Across Space & Time takes you on a journey across 9 billion years of cosmic history in a mere 2 minutes 51 seconds. You can catch this super short film at the beginning of Fighter Pilot.

The highlight of the film is a fantastic computer-generated flight through a field of over 10,000 galaxies that takes you on a journey back through time to an era when galaxies were newly formed. You’ll see the universe as it appeared when it was young.

These galaxies were photographed by Hubble as part of the Great Observatory Origins Deep Survey (GOODS) project. The original source image contains over 600 million pixels. Hubble scientists and imaging specialists, led by Dr. Frank Summers, worked for months to extract individual galaxy images, placing them in a 3D model according to their approximate true distances—as determined by ground-based photometric redshift data.

Barbara Feldon narrates the film, accompanied by an evocative musical score by Jonn Serrie.