The Hubble telescope was first manufactured and used in 1990. From then, it has done almost 1.4 million studies on various stars, planets and galaxies littering our Universe.
The telescope is of a school-bus size. It whizzes around Earth at a speed of 27,000 kilometres per hour (17,000 mph). It also has a special feature of pointing itself towards a far-off scene that is as accurate as a laser beam shining on one particular detail of a coin roughly 320 kilometres away (200 miles).
Its lens can spot a night light on the surface of the Moon and observe events unfold in the very distant past, more than 13.4 billion light-years from Earth in the absence of haze of the Earth’s atmosphere.
Hubble is always occupied in doing something, whether it be a single hour, seven days a week or 365 days a year. Well, that clearly suggests that the back catalogue of the telescope has something cool for every day of the year.
And using this feature, NASA created a fun feature for Hubble’s 30th anniversary. If you visit the space telescope’s website, there’s a new function that permits you to type your birth date and month. With this, you can view the image Hubble captured on one of your past birthdays.
This amazing instrument will show you the most incredible cosmic marvel captured on your birthday since the last three decades when the telescope was in use.
Moreover, you should also appreciate the ‘more info’ feature that teaches you a little more about the massive Universe our planet floats around in. It also tells about the many celestial objects that are scattered throughout. So go and check out what the telescope has captured on one of your birthdays.
