They celebrate its "birthday" when it was launched into orbit on April 24, 1990, by the crew of Space Shuttle Discovery.
[3] The 17th-anniversary celebration featured a panorama of part of the Carina Nebula, and a collection of images selected from that area.
[4] In its 17 years of exploring the heavens, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made nearly 800,000 observations and snapped nearly 500,000 images of more than 25,000 celestial objects.
In its 17-year lifetime, the telescope has made nearly 100,000 trips around our planet.59 images of merging galaxies were released for the 18th anniversary on 24 April 2008.
[5] In April 2019, a special celebration image of the Southern Crab Nebula (aka Hen 2-104) was released.
15th anniversary image - 2005 – M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy, including NGC 5194 and NGC 5195.
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17th anniversary image - 2007 – part of the Carina Nebula including the star system
WR 22
and open cluster (stars)
Trumpler 14
31st anniversary image - April 2021 – The Image shows
AG Carinae
waging a tug-of-war between gravity and radiation to avoid self-destruction.
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32nd anniversary image - April 2022 – The Image shows an unusual close-knit collection of five galaxies, called The
Hickson Compact Group
40. Three spiral-shaped galaxies, an elliptical galaxy, and a lenticular (lens-like) galaxy, these different galaxies crossed paths in their evolution to create an exceptionally crowded and eclectic galaxy sampler.
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33rd anniversary image - April 2023 - This image shows nearby star-forming region, NGC 1333.
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