On October 1, 2022, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) celebrated its 64th anniversary. In line with this, NASA has reintroduced a special page posted on the official Twitter for the 30th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope (in 2020).
* NASA was founded on July 29 as an agency of the United States government and officially started on October 1.
External site:Hubble birthday（https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/hst_bday/）
This special page allows you to find out which celestial body the Hubble Space Telescope captured that day when you specify your birthday and not only the image but also the name of the celestial body and a brief explanation are displayed.
Do you say it’s your birthday? It’s our birthday too, yeah!
NASA was founded on October 1, 1958. On October 1, 2001, @NASAHubble took this photo of a galaxy 50 million light years away.
See what the space telescope saw on YOUR birthday: https://t.co/oHvXXpIzjg pic.twitter.com/58KjYSNxVO
– NASA (@NASA) 1 October 2022
[▲IltelescopiospazialeHubblehafotografatolagalassiaaspiralenonbarrata”NGC3949″nell’anniversariodellafondazionedellaNASA”1ottobre”(Credit:NASA/ESAeTheHubbleHeritageTeam(STScI/AURA))]
The editorial team immediately tried it too.
The use is very simple, just go to the special site and select your birthday from “Select your birthday date”. You don’t need to do anything troublesome, like signing up.
After selecting, just press the red “SEND” button to see the celestial image of the day.
When I entered October 12 as proof,orion nebulawas displayed. This image is from the Hubble Space Telescope.Advanced Comet Hunt Observation Camera (ACS)”And“ La Siya Observatory2.2m MPG / ESO telescopeIt’s a combination of data from, ” and it’s a very interesting piece.
You can also share the content displayed on SNS and you can download high resolution images from the NASA detail page that opens by pressing “More Info” in the explanatory box.
note that,365 imagesis prepared andA set of images for each birthdayWas. In addition, the special page “What did Hubble see on your birthday?By downloading the list (xlsx file) posted on “, you can check all the date information at once.
Find out which celestial bodies were photographed on your birthday!
Source
- Image credit: NASA, Twitter
- NASA – Hubble birthday
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