By David Germain
The Associated Press
Remember those jokes about the Hubble telescope needing a blind man’s cane and dark glasses when it went into orbit 20 years ago?
After eye surgery by NASA astronauts to fix a warped mirror, the Hubble has become an instrument of penetrating vision that has allowed astronomers to peer into the farthest reaches of space and catch fantastic glimpses into the universe’s distant past.
Glorious pictures created from the data collected by Hubble, along with closer-to-home footage of NASA’s final nursemaid mission to the telescope last year, are presented in “Hubble 3D,” narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio.