A poet’s ode to the Hubble Telescope and to her father, who helped to build it – Aeon

At the moment, astronomers and astrophiles across the globe are just beginning to receive some of the first highly anticipated images from the James Webb Space Telescope. The short film My God, Its Full of Stars invites viewers to celebrate its predecessor in peering deeper into the cosmos than humanity ever has before the Hubble Space Telescope as well as some of the human stories behind it. Created to accompany an essay by Maria Popova as part of the The Marginalians Universe in Verse series, the animation adapts a poem by the former US Poet Laureate Tracy K Smith, whose father worked on the Hubble as one of NASAs first Black engineers. Pairing Smiths words with meticulously crafted visuals from the Brazilian animation director Daniel Brunson, the piece is a wondrous ode to our desire to know the Universe. Reflecting on the project in her essay, Popova writes:

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A poet's ode to the Hubble Telescope and to her father, who helped to build it - Aeon