Butterfly Nebula voted favourite 2020 Hubble image, NASA says 'excellent choice'

NASA on December 31 anunced that most favourite Hubble im for Instagram users in 2020 was picture of NGC 6302, which is also kwn as Butterfly Nebula. Earlier this week, NASA, in one of its stories, asked Instagram users to vote for ir favourite Hubble im of 2020. American ncy has w revealed that netizens on popular social media platform unanimously voted for Butterfly Nebula im to take title. 

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"This week, you voted in our stories to decide our Instagram audience’s favorite 2020 Hubble im! winner was this im of NGC 6302, also kwn as Butterfly Nebula. Excellent choice!" NASA said in its post while resharing Butterfly Nebula im on Thursday. Instagram users flooded post with likes and comments as y shared ir take on im and why y voted for it to be ir top choice. One individual dubbed im as an "intergalactic butterfly".  

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NASA celebrated 30th anniversary of Hubble in 2020

In 2020, as NASA celebrated 30th anniversary of Hubble telescope in , it graced social media with several stunning ims of galaxies, including some sonification videos that had digital data transformed into sound. two sonification videos that went viral last year were of Crab Nebula and Helix Nebula. While sonification music of Crab Nebula sounded to netizens like Interstellar movie's background score, Helix Nebula mand to scare many on social media with its music that sounded like it had come straight out of a horror movie. 

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Hubble Telescope of NASA, which captures data and sent it back to Earth, was deployed 30 years ago by shuttle Discovery. observatory has been named after astromer Edwin Hubble and since its launch in 1990, it has made more than 1.4 million observations. 

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