Hubble 3D | SPACE: ABOVE AND BEYOND Our favorite telescope in Hubble 3D
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SPACE: ABOVE AND BEYOND Our favorite telescope in Hubble 3D
Movie Review

Hubble 3D

EW's GRADE
A

Details Rated: G; Length: 43 Minutes; Genre: Documentary; Distributor: Warner Bros.

The IMAX screen is the ultimate planetarium in the awesome documentary Hubble 3D. It hurtles you into outer space, along with a crew that traveled 350 miles above Earth to repair the Hubble telescope (as the planet looms like a vast milky-blue wall, we feel we too are walking on air). Then it takes you to really outer space, where we float ''through'' the Hubble's miraculous images — a trippy grand canyon of matter, with nebulas like exploding roses. In a marvel of perspective, the 3-D reveals each galaxy to be a mere drop in the cosmic ocean, which is itself just another drop. A

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Originally posted Mar 17, 2010 Published in issue #1095 Mar 26, 2010 Order article reprints

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