Hubble space telescope is celebrating your birthday on 30th anniversary of its launch
Kiso 5639 is sharing my birthday. It was born in a “firestorm” that is much more dramatic than giving birth in a hospital maternity ward.
NASA
Thursday has been 30 years since NASA launched the Hubble Space Telescope Discovery into space orbit and has spent most of the time exploring the universe 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The agency celebrates the milestone by letting you find out what “cosmic wonder” it is discovered on your birthday.
You can find out what it saw by entering the month and date on its website as previously reported by KDVRand you get a picture of the discovery and some details. NASA encourages people to share their use # Hubble30.
For me, it discovered the “star birth firestorm” when the dwarf galaxy Kiso 5639 appeared in 2015. It appears to be part of a class of “tadpole” galaxies named after their bright heads and elongated tails. I greet my new birthday buddy who will survive me by at least 10 million years.
The telescope can only take pictures in black and white, but the pictures we see from them are all in color. For this purpose, several pictures with different filters are made and used Create a color composition Help researchers. So there was dust and gas cloud LHA 120-N 150 a pink hue last month.
Hubble Head of Mission Thomas Brown said last year Space.com that the telescope is expected to continue operating until at least 2025.
