Spanish Hubble videos win NASA and ESA prizes
Sunday, May 3, 2015 @ 11:51 AM
TWO videos made in Spain in tribute to the telescope Hubble have won prizes in the 25th anniversary competition organised by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA).
Both short film documentaries have been acclaimed for their 'scientific precision' and 'audience participation', as well as their level of innovation, artistic quality, and overall content.
The winner, titled Bariónica, was produced by Desiré de Palacios using images captured by Hubble over its 25-year history.
And in second place, Hubble's Time Machine was put together by members of the Valencia University Observatory.
As first prize, Bariónica will receive a chunk of the solar panels attached to Hubble, mounted in plexiglass – panels which spent three years in space and had to be replaced in 1993.
Desiré de Palacios will also get a copy of a photo captured by Hubble – the one chosen to represent the 25th anniversary – signed by the spacemen and spacewomen who have worked on it and by the astronomers observing it.
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