Since 1995, images from the Hubble space telescope of the American space agency NASA have been published on the Astronomy Picture of the Day or APOD website.
In an iNews report, it is specified that NASA has collated images of Hubble and chose one for each day of the year. Therefore, anyone can find one to match his birthday.
This NASA space telescope has been capturing countless images for more than three decades, peering into the darkest retreats of the cosmos.
The APOD Calendar
Since 1990, NASA has matched one image from Hubble with each day of a particular year.
According to the space agency, Hubble is exploring the universe 24 hours each day, seven days each week. Meaning, it has observed some captivating cosmic wonder each day of the year, including any individual's birthday.
It's certainly interesting to know what Hubble looked at on one's birthday. All a person needs to do is enter the month and date of his birthday in a space on the website.
NASA encourages everyone searching for the image captured on their birthday to share the results with their social media contacts using "#Hubble30."
Hubble Images on Popular Dates
For instance, on December 25, Hubble Space Telescope snapped the blue and red dwarf galaxy NGC 4214, burning with gas clouds and young stars.
The image shows complicated patterns of glowing hydrogen formed during the "star-birthing process," cavities blown clear of gas by bright stellar clusters and stellar winds.
For example, if David Attenborough were to do the image search for his May 8 birthday, he would be able to view a Comet ISON, which was hurtling headed for the Sun at an enormous 48,000 miles per hour. The said comet was over 400 million miles from this planet, between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars.
If Ed Sheeran were to look for an image for his February 17 birthday, he would then be able to see the Dwarf Galaxy Kiso 5639. Hubble telescope was able to capture a firestorm of star birth that lighted up one end of such a dwarf galaxy.
Named Kiso 5639, this dwarf galaxy is a member of a type of "tadpole" galaxies called as such due to their bright heads, not to mention elongated tails.
Hubble's Location
As specified in a The Sun report, it was on April 24, 1990, when the American space agency launched Hubble and it was released into space the next day.
As of today, the space telescope is located approximately 547 kilometers above the surface of Earth where it completes 15 orbits each day, NASA said.
The American space agency also said that the satellite is moving at the speed of roughly eight kilometers per second, which is quick enough to travel through the United States in approximately 10 minutes.
Since being placed into operation, Hubble has captured spectacular images of the universe, which have helped astrologists understand the cosmos better.
Also according to NASA, it can the space telescope could see objects in space such as a pair of fireflies in Japan that are less than 10 feet away from Washington.
Related information about NASA's Hubble Telescope's images matching birthdays is shown on Physics with Nunez's YouTube video below.
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