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Hubble birthday to you: NASA telescope took this pic on your special day
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope also doubles up as a birthday photographer these days. Here’s how to find your starry birthday pic.
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been capturing beautiful images as it orbits the earth day in and day out since its launch in April 1990. You could find the picture taken on your birthday via their website.
NASA’S HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Hubble Space Telescope has been capturing the beauty of the universe and taking in galaxies and all kinds of far-away objects with its massive lenses daily since April 1990. The telescope is far above rain clouds, light pollution and atmospheric distortions therefore providing a crystal clear view of the universe.
The telescope is run jointly by NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) and named after the trailblazing astronomer Edwin Hubble. The telescope has impressive images captured over the last 31 years and you can view them on the NASA site where an image will be available for one of those days except if its a leap day.
“Hubble has made more than 1.4 million observations over the course of its lifetime. Over 18,000 peer-reviewed science papers have been published on its discoveries, and every current astronomy textbook includes contributions from the observatory,” according to NASA.
“The telescope has tracked interstellar objects as they soared through our solar system, watched a comet collide with Jupiter, and discovered moons around Pluto. It has found dusty disks and stellar nurseries throughout the Milky Way that may one day become fully fledged planetary systems and studied the atmospheres of planets that orbit other stars,” according to NASA.
HOW TO FIND YOUR HUBBLE BIRTHDAY PICTURE
Back in 2020, NASA published a page on their website which allows you to insert your birth month and date and it will give you a spacey image that was taken on that day.
Each image will tell you what year it was taken and provides a short description of what you are gazing at. There is also an option for “more info” if you would like to read further.
You can access your birthday image using the link in the tweet below.
After finding your own birthday picture you could just click on the red x to find an imager from another date.
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