What Did the Hubble Telescope See on Your Birthday? (1 Viewer)

[Linda]

NASA has a fun activity. Enter the month and date of your birth, and get a photo of something the telescope spotted that day. For me, it came up with an image from 2007 of Planetary Nebula NGC 2371.

This image captures the planetary nebula NGC 2371, the glowing remains of a Sun-like star. The remnant star visible at the center of NGC 2371 is the super-hot core of the former red giant, now stripped of its outer layers.​

I got a kick out of it because it looks as though I left a foot print. Yes, I know there are many questions about the Not A Straight Answer group, but thought this might be fun for some. Did anyone else find something interesting?

What Did Hubble See on Your Birthday? - NASA Science

What did Hubble look at on your birthday? Enter the month and date below to find out! Then share the results with your friends on social media using #Hubble. Firefox users: To easily share your birthday image on social media, you might need to turn off content blocking for this site in your...

www.nasa.gov

 

[Snowmelt]

NASA has a fun activity. Enter the month and date of your birth, and get a photo of something the telescope spotted that day. For me, it came up with an image from 2007 of Planetary Nebula NGC 2371.

This image captures the planetary nebula NGC 2371, the glowing remains of a Sun-like star. The remnant star visible at the center of NGC 2371 is the super-hot core of the former red giant, now stripped of its outer layers.​

I got a kick out of it because it looks as though I left a foot print. Yes, I know there are many questions about the Not A Straight Answer group, but thought this might be fun for some. Did anyone else find something interesting?

What Did Hubble See on Your Birthday? - NASA Science

What did Hubble look at on your birthday? Enter the month and date below to find out! Then share the results with your friends on social media using #Hubble. Firefox users: To easily share your birthday image on social media, you might need to turn off content blocking for this site in your...

www.nasa.gov

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On yours, not only a footprint (my, that is amazing), but if you rotate the whole image 90 degrees to the left you see the entire alien head, with the gleam in its eye and a kind of bobble eye, like a fish guppy !!! The footprint is then directly on its mouth.

 

[Snowmelt]

I got the Southern Crab Nebula, an ageing red giant doing a tango with a hot small white dwarf (and blasting megatons of material out of the way while doing so), This is appropriate as it is in the southern skies in Centaurus, the well-known Crab Nebula is viewed from the northern skies. This was photographed by Hubble on March 11, 2019.

 

[June]

Mine was the inner region of Abell, a 1689 cluster of galaxies 2.2 billion light years away

 

[Snowmelt]

Mine was the inner region of Abell, a 1689 cluster of galaxies 2.2 billion light years awayView attachment 13508

How beautiful. Jewels of light.

 

[Linda]

Hailstones Melt and June, you all have such spectacular images.