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This is a list of images released to celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope's anniversaries. They celebrate its "birthday" when it was launched into orbit on April 24, 1990, by the crew of Space Shuttle Discovery. [1]
The Hubble Space Telescope ... In April 2016, a special celebratory image of the Bubble Nebula was released for Hubble's 26th "birthday". [231] Equipment failures
Smile, Hubble! You turn 31 today. The Hubble Space Telescope launched into orbit on April 24, 1990, and it's been looking into the far reaches of space and beaming images back to us ever since. In ...
Orbiting Hubble Space Telescope; Edwin P. Hubble Planetarium, located in the Edward R. Murrow High School, Brooklyn, New York; [58] Edwin Hubble Highway, the stretch of Interstate 44 passing through his birthplace of Marshfield, Missouri; [59] Hubble Middle School, a public school in Wheaton, Illinois, where he lived from 11 years old and up. [60]
The Hubble Space Telescope is known for its dazzling images of cosmic phenomena, but it didn't exactly start that way. Its first ever image, captured 25 years ago today, is decidedly less exciting ...
NASA marked the upcoming 25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope's launch with a flurry of social media posts heralding the historic mission on Saturday.
15 April 1707 – Leonhard Euler's birthday; 18 April 1955 – Albert Einstein's death; 22 April 1904 – J. Robert Oppenheimer's birthday; 23 April 1858 – Max Planck's birthday; 24 April 1990 – Hubble Space Telescope launched; 25 April 1990 – Hubble Space Telescope deployed from the shuttle Discovery; 30 April 1777 – Carl Friedrich ...
The composite photo, released Thursday by NASA, was taken by Hubble on October 22 as Saturn was about 850 million miles (1.37 billion kilometers) away, according to the space agency. The space ...