Named in honor of the trailblazing astronomer Edwin Hubble, the Hubble Space Telescope is a large space -based observatory, which has revolutionized astronomy since its launch and development by the Space Shuttle discovery in 1990. Hubble has a crystal clear view of the universe.
Its capabilities have increased over 30 years of operation, this is because new, cutting-edge scientific instruments have been added to the telescope over the course of 5 astronaut servicing missions.
Hubble has made about 1.5 Million observations over the course of its lifetime. It peered back into our universe’s distant past, to locations more than 13.4 billion light years from Earth, capturing galaxies merging, proving the supermassive black holes, so as to make us better understand the history of the expanding universe.
In the mood of celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the launch of Hubble Space Telescope, NASA has created a website that shows you a photo Hubble has taken on your birthday.
This website lets you punch in your date and month of your birthday to find an image, the telescope had taken that day. For example; if you put in 17th April, you will get to see Galaxy Cluster Abell 2261, photographed on April 17th,2011.
It is more than a million light-years wide, and about 10 times bigger than our Milky Way Galaxy. Hubble was launched on April 24th,1990, and on punching that date you get to see Cygnus Loop Supernova Remnant, shot on April 24th, 1991.
The Cygnus Loop marks the edge of a bubble like expansion blast wave from a colossal stellar explosion that occurred about 15,000 years ago, says NASA.
To celebrate the grand anniversary, many events had been planned by the team but they could not execute it because of COVID-19 pandemic. Hubble is a cooperative program between NASA and European Space Agency (ESA).
The telescope is operated by the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScl) in Baltimore, MD. NASA, ESA and STScl are issuing press releases and holding online events.
You can look up-to past 30 years of what Hubble had captured on that particular day. NASA additionally requested customers to reply to its tweet to let others know what all they saw through the software.
NASA frequently creates such instruments to interact with its viewers and educate them in an enjoyable way. It individually runs Ask the Expert collection on its social media channels. Also through videos NASA officers clarify the mysteries of the universe.
