A new planetarium show designed for the Gheens Science Hall and Rauch Planetarium.
Format: Spitz Immersavision Video, All-Sky Slides, Starball, 5.1 Audio
Length: 25 minutes "Hubble's Heritage" could easily been dubbed "Hubble's Heavenly Heritage" for its visual beauty and magnificence. A quintessential planitarium presentation, it begins by telling seasons in the sky, guiding backyard telescopes to the most charming objects, witnessing images of grand earth-based telescopes, and understanding how astronomers' discovered the expansion of the Universe. Through breath-taking up-to-the-minute Hubble images we are taken through space and time to cauldrons of star-birth, churning black holes, exploding stars, colliding galaxies. We are transported 14 billion light years away to the very edge of the visible universe, and look back 14 billion years to the beginning of Time. We learn our place in the cosmos, and that no matter who we are, we are all made of STARDUST.
Hubble's Heritage is a must see for anyone who has looked at the sky. It is a tribute to the Hubble Space Telescope, one of the greatest achievements in all human history. You will want to share the experience with friends and return to see it again and again.
Produced by Ron Schildknecht and John Kielkopf at the University of Louisville, in cooperation with the Delphi Center for Teaching and Learning, the Department of Physics, and the Gheens Science Hall and Rauch Planetarium.
Directed by Ron Schildknecht
Written by Helen Kielkopf
Consultant, Dr. John Kielkopf
ATM Programming, Starball and Laser Effects, Scott Miller
Technical Consultant, Drew Foster