Published 17:40 IST, June 29th 2020

NASA's Hubble Telescope shows how space looked on your birthday, here's how to check

In collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA), NASA released Hubble telescope’s back catalogue on the website which allows one to enter birth month.

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NASA has released  cosmic photos recorded by its valuable Observatory, Hubble Telescope throughout its journey in and w allows people to view its activity at time of ir birthdays. This comes after NASA celebrated Hubble's 30th-anniversary since it was first launched on April 24, 1990, into orbit. In an archive released on its website, NASA features Hubble’s events and ims that it captured in past years. According to NASA, its Telescope spent nearly three deces travelling over four billion miles, capturing phemen 24 hours a day.  

In collaboration with  European ncy (ESA), NASA released Hubble telescope’s back catalogue on website which allows one to enter ir month of birth and  year to experience telescope’s journey and its whereabouts in  Earth's atmosphere approximately 13.4 billion light-years away at speed of 27,000 kilometers per hour. For instance, if one entered March as month, and 1997 as year on  Hubble Birthday Site, it listed that telescope h captured Galaxy NGC 3310. Furr, result mentioned some key details, saying, “re are several hundred star clusters in starburst galaxy NGC 3310. y appear in this im as bright, blue clumps that trace galaxy's spiral arms.” 

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Hubble has me astromy relevant

Currently located about 340 miles (547 km) above Earth’s surface,  Hubble's telescope completed almost 15 orbits per day and five miles (8 km) per second. According to an astromy report, Hubble is 43.5 feet long (13.2 m) and 14 feet wide (4.2 m) and weighs about 27,000 pounds (12,246 kg). telescope is size of a school bus and operates on six large batteries. “Hubble’s seemingly never-ending, breathtaking celestial snapshots provide a visual shorthand for its exemplary scientific achievements,” NASA and ESA said in a blog post. It ded, “Unlike any or telescope before it, Hubble has me astromy relevant, engaging, and accessible for people of all s.”  

Speaking about its mission, NASA wrote, “it has yielded to date 1.4 million observations and provided data that astromers around world have used to write more than 17,000 peer-reviewed scientific publications, making it one of most prolific observatories in history. Its rich data archive alone will fuel future astromy research for generations to come.” 

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17:41 IST, June 29th 2020