NASA page allows you to see what Hubble telescope captured on your birthday – The Indian Express

By: Tech Desk | New Delhi | Updated: September 17, 2020 10:08:28 amNASA Hubble telescope (Image: NASA)

The mysterious world of space has still not been deciphered by the gaze of human beings on Earth. As a matter of fact, NASA in its consistent efforts, developed the Hubble telescope in the 1990s to observe eye-catching happenings in the universe and since then for every second, its doing that quite persistently.

Recently, the US-based space agency announced that it can showcase which new galaxy it captured, what unusual did it notice about our stars, solar system and planets and what patterns of ionized-gases it observed, on any specific day. So users can use the new tool to check what Hubble captured on your birthday, but for any specific year.

Check out the too here

We decided to take a random day of every month over the decades to list the cosmic mayhem in the space.

The telescope, on this day, captured the disintegration of an ancient comet 332P/Ikeya-Murakami while it approaches towards the sun. It was one of the clearest views of a breaking icy comet.

This was an astounding capture as the telescope snapped the collusion of two dwarf galaxies one of which is I Zwicky 18 with another one on its upper right. This led to the formation of a new star.

On this day, a disc surrounding a star Beta Pictoris, which was discovered in 1984, was found to be constituted by two planets, light-scattering dust and debris.

Hubble captured some colourful patterns of gases in black hole powered galaxy which is known as Circinus Galaxy. These gases depicted a cauldron of vapours, concentrated in two disks of the galaxy.

This day marked the capturing of Galaxy Cluster Abell 2744 which is 3.5 billion light-years away and has several clusters of small galaxies in it. It also poses a strong gravitational field which acts as a lens to reflect the light of almost 3,000 background galaxies.

The telescope took a snapshot of Neptune which is the most distant planet. The image of the planet revealed the formation of high-altitude clouds composing of methane ice crystals.

On this day, the collision between two galaxies UGC 06471 and UGC 06472 which are 145 million light-years away from the earth was captured. The collision eventually led to the formation of a larger galaxy.

Triangulum Galaxy was snapped depicting the specific areas of star birth with a bright blue light spreading across the galaxy in beautiful nebulas of hot gas.

Hubble clicked the picture of Galaxy ESO 243-49, which had a medium-sized black hole. The 20,000 suns sized black hole was positioned on a glacial plane of the galaxy.

The telescope captured an encounter of a comet named C/2013 A1 with Mars. The Comet Siding Spring passed with a distance of just 87,000 miles to that of Mars.

Gum 29 a vibrant stellar being ground, which is 20,000 light-years away, consisting of a giant cluster of 3,000 stars was captured by the telescope. This behemoth cluster of stars is called Westerlund 2.

The snapshot of Southern Ring Nebula was recorded which did show two stars a bright white star and a fainter dull star at the centre of the nebula where the dull star was indeed creating the whole nebula.

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