Here’s a fun little thing. NASA has put up a website that will show you what the Hubble Telescope saw on YOUR birthday (or really, any day/month you submit) and describe what it saw for you. Obviously, if your birthdate was before May 20, 1990 when the very first image from Hubble was taken, there won’t be an image to show. That’s why you don’t enter a year, only a month and day
I put in the month and day of my birthday and here is what the Hubble Telescope saw on that date in 2011.
On July 2 in 2011
Necklace Nebula
The Necklace Nebula contains the glowing remains of an ordinary, Sun-like star shedding material at the end of its life. The nebula consists of a bright ring, measuring 12 trillion miles across, dotted with dense, bright knots of gas that resemble diamonds in a necklace.
Pretty cool!
