homeland: NASA launched the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990, and since then it has been swimming in space and taking thousands of pictures of the universe every day.
For more than 30 years, the US space agency has chosen one of the images captured by Hubble within the Astronomical Image Day website, which was supervised by NASA in cooperation with Michigan Tech University.
In fact, thanks to a useful tool on the US Space Agency’s website, you can now keep track of time and look at the photo taken on your birthday.
To find out what Hubble saw on your birthday, just head over to the NASA website. From there, select the month and day of your birth, then hit submit to see what the telescope saw on that date and you’ll see an image and you’ll get some information regarding what Hubble saw.
If you click “More Information”, you will be taken to a new Web page on Hubble’s website that tells you all regarding the image.
And you can easily share your photo on social media like Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest, by clicking on the icons in the upper left corner.
The Hubble Space Telescope is a massive telescope launched into space by NASA. According to the US space agency, it is “as tall as a large school bus” and “weighs the equivalent of two adult elephants”.
Hubble spends its time traveling around the Earth at 5 miles per second (8 kilometers per second), which is fast enough to drive a car across the United States in just 10 minutes.
The telescope records enormous data of the universe and takes pictures of planets, stars and galaxies. Since its launch, Hubble has witnessed the birth and death of stars, black holes and galaxies billions of kilometers away, and other scientific discoveries of interest to the scientific community.
NASA said Hubble has “fundamentally changed our understanding of the universe, and its challenging story of innovation, determination, and human spirit inspires us.”
The Hubble Space Telescope is named in honor of Edwin Hubble, the American astronomer who determined that the universe extends beyond the boundaries of the Milky Way, and made important discoveries regarding the universe in the early 1990s.
The famous telescope was launched on April 24, 1990 aboard the space shuttle Discovery. Hubble was launched into orbit the next day, 340 miles above the Earth’s surface, to begin its mission to explore the vast universe, including distant galaxies, supernovae, nebulae and exoplanets.
The telescope is located high above the Earth’s atmosphere, slightly higher than the International Space Station (ISS), and orbits the Earth at a speed of 27,300 kilometers per hour, and has achieved more than 1.5 million observations during more than 30 years of work.
In all, astronauts visited Hubble five times to repair it, add new parts and cameras to the telescope, and the space agency added: “Hubble explores the universe 24 hours a day, seven days a week and this means that it has observed some wonderful cosmic wonders every day of the year, including On your birthday.”
