StarGaze: Hubble’s View of the Universe
If you would like to get your mind off of self-important politicians and the nonsense that they spout to win elections, I would highly recommend StarGaze: Hubble’s View of the Universe, a DVD that consists of awesome pictures taken by the Hubble space telescope set to music.
I found it necessary to watch it twice, because when the subtitles are displayed, I wasn’t focused on the pictures. But to really see the pictures in their full glory, it helps to turn off the subtitles. The subtitles have a lot of interesting information in them, so they are well worth reading. The are available in several languages.
The main menu didn’t come up when the DVD started playing. I didn’t realize that there’s also a voice-over narration on the DVD which allows you to see the pictures without having to read subtitles. To select the voice narration, I had to do into the audio selection menu, selecting “English narration” from the subtitle menu just gave me subtitles. I thought this was a shortcoming of the DVD.
The film is only about 50 minutes long and gazing at the universe through Hubble’s eyes really puts everything that happens on this planet into perspective.
It also makes you wonder how anybody could think that the Biblical story of creation has any truth to it. If the Hubble is collecting light from billions of years ago, how could the universe have been created just a few thousand years ago? When you see on the unfathomable vastness of the Universe, how could any human think the whole thing was built for him?
The film is available from Netflix:
NASA’s Hubble Telescope focuses its lens on amazing celestial images in this captivating documentary, which puts viewers in the astronomer’s seat. The star of the film is Hubble’s astounding footage of galaxies, supernovae, stars, planets, gaseous clouds, nebulae and other out-of-this-world sights, accompanied by a narrative detailing Hubble’s history and NASA’s mission to use the telescope for documenting cosmic events and objects.
It can also be purchased from Amazon.com