What did Hubble see on your birthday?

[Stu]

A bit of fun to pass the time, enter your birth date and see what the Hubble Telescope discovered on your birthday.

https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/what-did-hubble-see-on-your-birthday

Here is mine.

[Whistlin Bob]

Ooooh- that's a good game! 

[Barry-W-Fenner]

A star cluster near the core of our galaxy. 26,000lys away.

[Stu]

7 minutes ago, Barry-W-Fenner said:

A star cluster near the core of our galaxy. 26,000lys away.

Beautiful!

[tomato]

Great post, I have a really nice image of interacting galaxies:

 

Edited April 13, 2020 by tomato

[callisto]

Monkey Head Nebula for me

[Knight of Clear Skies]

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Interacting Galaxies Arp 274

Arp 274 is a system of three galaxies that appear to be partially overlapping. Two of the galaxies are rapidly forming new stars, evident in the bright blue knots strung along the arms of the galaxy on the right and along the small galaxy on the left.

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[maw lod qan]

I'm pretty sure I see Jabba the Hutt in this image from mine! How appropriate!

[Marvin Jenkins]

Super nova remnant discovered in 1987!

[RT65CB-SWL]

Here's mine...

I was born fifty [50] years earlier. 

[Paul M]

I think they knew it was my birthday, this from 11 years ago. Just about my my favorite subject, deep cosmic vista

 

GOODS South Field

More than 12 billion years of cosmic history are shown in this panoramic view of thousands of galaxies in various stages of assembly. The view covers a portion of the southern field of a galaxy census called the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS)

 

[Scosmico]

This one in on my to do list now next time I go to Brazil.

 

Star Cluster NGC 265

This image displays a cluster of stars called NGC 265. The cluster resides in the Small Magellanic Cloud, one of the small galaxies orbiting our Milky Way galaxy.

 

[Mognet]

I have the light from a galaxy gravitationally lensed by a cluster

[Greymouser]

Interesting idea. I get Hubble Ultra Deep Field:

 

[Guest]

[Hypernova]

I've got NGC 2440, a planetary nebula.

[ScouseSpaceCadet]

Something I'll observe from my back garden if there's ever a catastrophic winter power cut; Horsehead Nebula. 

On November 5 in 2012

Horsehead Nebula

The backlit wisps along the Horsehead Nebula's upper ridge are being illuminated by a young five-star system just off the top of this image, taken in infrared light. Harsh radiation from one of these bright stars is slowly evaporating the nebula.

Edited April 14, 2020 by ScouseSpaceCadet

[Whistlin Bob]

4 hours ago, ScouseSpaceCadet said:

Something I'll observe from my back garden if there's ever a catastrophic winter power cut; Horsehead Nebula. 

On November 5 in 2012

Horsehead Nebula

The backlit wisps along the Horsehead Nebula's upper ridge are being illuminated by a young five-star system just off the top of this image, taken in infrared light. Harsh radiation from one of these bright stars is slowly evaporating the nebula.

I really love this image- but I'm also completely confused by it. When I image or observe the horsey (ok- hands up- I've only seen it once maybe twice despite trying many times) it's a dark nebula: it's a gap in a bank of emission nebula. So why is it light in appearance here? I understand that it's in Infra-red, and presumably that has something to do with it, but surely the bank that we normally see also emits in IR- so why would it appear black here?

(I now have that slightly anxious feeling of having asked a really dumb question in class...)

[Stu]

37 minutes ago, Whistlin Bob said:

I really love this image- but I'm also completely confused by it. When I image or observe the horsey (ok- hands up- I've only seen it once maybe twice despite trying many times) it's a dark nebula: it's a gap in a bank of emission nebula. So why is it light in appearance here? I understand that it's in Infra-red, and presumably that has something to do with it, but surely the bank that we normally see also emits in IR- so why would it appear black here?

(I now have that slightly anxious feeling of having asked a really dumb question in class...)

Seems like a perfectly valid question to me!

IR must be the answer in some way obviously but having seen that HII regions can also emit IR, I don’t understand enough to be of any help!!

[mikeDnight]

I got Spider Diffraction for my birthday. Oh, and plenty of nice galaxies. 😊

[Knight of Clear Skies]

49 minutes ago, Whistlin Bob said:

I really love this image- but I'm also completely confused by it. When I image or observe the horsey (ok- hands up- I've only seen it once maybe twice despite trying many times) it's a dark nebula: it's a gap in a bank of emission nebula. So why is it light in appearance here? I understand that it's in Infra-red, and presumably that has something to do with it, but surely the bank that we normally see also emits in IR- so why would it appear black here?

(I now have that slightly anxious feeling of having asked a really dumb question in class...)

Nothing dumb about asking questions, it's generally the right thing to do. The Horsehead is much brighter in IR than the emission nebula behind it because of the concentration of warm dust.

Edited April 14, 2020 by Knight of Clear Skies

[Rob]

Nice, fun post here!... Heres mine

[Viktiste]

Yes, good fun!

*Excitingly entering birth date.... anticipating a great image*

Pluto and its five moons...

Sorry FLO, but I will press the cancel button on this one!

Edited April 14, 2020 by Viktiste

[DaveL59]

for me it was Mars

[niallk]

On 13/04/2020 at 09:11, tomato said:

Great post, I have a really nice image of interacting galaxies:

 

We share the same birthday!! 😁