The Hubble Deep Field: Looking Back In Time
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- Paul Morris
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Taken over the course of 10 days in 1995, the Hubble Deep Field captured roughly 3,000 distant galaxies varying in their stages of evolution, stunning the world. This video features some of the scientists and engineers that work on Hubble, and how the Hubble Deep Field changed everything.
For more information, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble.
Additional Visualizations:
Compact galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Credit: ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen)
Pan of GOODS field containing distant dwarf galaxies forming stars at an incredible rate: Credit: NASA & ESA
Hubble: Galaxies Across Space and Time: Credit: NASA, ESA and F. Summers (STScI)
Speedthrough of galaxies added to deep field image: Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO/K.Arcand; Sonification: @SYSTEMSounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)
Music Credits:
"Earth’s Orbit" by Andreas Andreas Bolldén [STIM] via Koka Media [SACEM], Universal Production Music France [SACEM], and Universal Production Music.
“Planetary Exploration” by Richard Andrew Canavan [PRS] via Sound Pocket Music [PRS], and Universal Production Music.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. However, please credit individual items as indicated above.
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Director of photography
- James Ball (Origin Films)
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Producers
- Paul Morris (KBRwyle) [Lead]
- James Leigh (Origin Films)
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Production assistant
- Lucy Lund (Origin Films)
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Support
- Erin Kisliuk (TRAX International)
- James Jeletic (NASA/GSFC)
- Jeannine Kashif (ASRC Federal System Solutions)
- Lynn Bassford (Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company)
- Maureen Disharoon (ASRC Federal System Solutions)
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Technical support
- Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
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Sound recordist
- Alex Jennings (Origin Films)
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