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1/6 Here it is! The anniversary image of #Hubble30 features the giant nebula NGC 2014 and its neighbour NGC 2020, part of a vast star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Credit: @NASA / @ESA and @stsci
spacetelescope.org/news/heic2007/
Credit: @NASA / @ESA and @stsci
spacetelescope.org/news/heic2007/
2/6 To commemorate three decades of scientific discoveries using @Hubble_Space , this image is one of the most photogenic examples of the many turbulent stellar nurseries the telescope has observed during its 30-year lifetime.
3/6 Although NGC 2014 and NGC 2020 appear to be separate in this visible-light image, they are actually part of one giant star formation complex.
Credit: @ESA / @Hubble_Space / Digitized Sky Survey 2
Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin
Credit: @ESA / @Hubble_Space / Digitized Sky Survey 2
Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin
In a corner of #ESATech centre #ESTEC in #NL is what looks like a wall hanging – but is actually part of @HubbleTelescope’s space-flown solar array. How did it come to be here? Therein lies a tale… #Hubble30 1/28
In 1977, NASA and ESA made a deal on @HubbleTelescope - ESA gained 15% of telescope observing time, and access to all data, in return for contributing an instrument (the Faint Object Camera), designing and building Hubble’s solar array & providing engineering support 2/28
Solar arrays? Sounds simple enough... but @HubbleTelescope presented special engineering challenges. To begin with, these solar arrays were going to be taken back to Earth, afterwards, to find out first-hand how orbital hardware endures in space – so needed careful design 3/28
Today we're excited to unveil a set of stories and data visualizations that chronicle the work of the @HubbleTelescope, which was launched 30 years ago this month physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.…
Visualizations by @NadiehBremer
#Hubble30 #space #astronomy
Visualizations by @NadiehBremer
#Hubble30 #space #astronomy
What has the @HubbleTelescope been looking at for the past 30 years? Here is a breakdown of the kinds of astronomical objects that the telescope has observed doi.org/10.1063/PT.6.4… #Hubble30
Though she retired a decade before Hubble’s launch, Nancy Grace Roman (1925–2018) had a big influence on the long-lived telescope doi.org/10.1063/PT.6.4… #Hubble30 #WomenInSTEM
