What Did Hubble See On Your Birthday?

So I was starting with my normal morning routine scanning through various news filters in my browser over a cup of coffee when i came across this. It's fun for everyone but especially astronomy geeks. It's also quick and pleasant distraction from the monotonousness of day to day news over the last month.

In these grim times, we all need a bit of an escape – so how about travelling far from Earth, through both space and time? Thanks to a little widget by NASA, you can now find out what the venerable Hubble Space Telescope, currently celebrating its 30th anniversary, saw on your birthday. All you need to do is type in your birth month and day, and an unquestionably gorgeous shot of something out there in the cosmos will pop up. On my birthday, albeit not taken in the year of my birth because (sigh) I’m a bit older than 30, Hubble took a shot of NGC 3982, a spiral galaxy 68 million light-years away.

forbes. com article about the tool.

NASA is cool. What did Hubble see on your birthday?

The telescope was looking at this "impact scar on Jupiter" on my birthday.

a reply to: AnonyMason

Cool idea for a thread.

Heres my birthday, not too interesting but hey..

Hubble-V Nebula Hubble-V is an active star-forming region within galaxy NGC 6822. The cloud is about 200 light-years across and contains a dense knot of dozens of ultra-hot stars, each 100,000 times brighter than our Sun.

a reply to: AnonyMason

ultra deep field

a reply to: NoConspiracy

One of my all time favorite images of space. I look at it often. Pretty amazing that each point of light in the deep field image are entire galaxies.

a reply to: SecretKnowledge

All of space is pretty interesting, man! Hubble has taken some incredible pictures over the years.

As far as birthday images go, I like yours better than mine lolol.

a reply to: AnonyMason

The "Southern Ring Nebula". I like mine. It looks like a beautiful turquoise cabochon - my birthstone.



Sal

On February 9 in 2014
Monkey Head Nebula
This image reveals carved knots of gas and dust in a small portion of the Monkey Head Nebula. The nebula is a star-forming region that hosts dusky dust clouds silhouetted against glowing gas.

Monkey Head Nebula

I'm really happy with this, absolutely beautiful.

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Bubble Nebula.

An enormous bubble is being blown into space by a super-hot, massive star. The Bubble Nebula is roughly seven light-years across and is located 7,100 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia.

a reply to: AnonyMason

Yours is the same as my Mrs'.

a reply to: AnonyMason

Awesome post.

Hubble saw Galaxy NGC 300 on my birthday.

a reply to: AnonyMason
Here's mine

Galaxy Cluster RDCS 1252.9-2927 This image captures the massive galaxy clutser RDCS 1252.9-2927. The galaxies in the cluster already existed when the universe was just 5 billion years old, or about 35 percent of its present age.

originally posted by: Wide-Eyes
a reply to: AnonyMason

Yours is the same as my Mrs'.

Woot! Cool people have that birthday!