Created on Saturday, 31 July 2010 14:53

400 Years of the Telescope takes viewers on a journey from Galileo’s first look at the cosmos in 1609, to today’s thrilling quests to discover new worlds and glimpse the formation of the first stars after the Big Bang.

The filmmakers traveled the globe, interviewing leading astronomers and cosmologists against a backdrop of the world’s greatest observatories, to create a vivid film that presents the human quest of the past 400 years to understand the structure and nature of the universe.