Astronomy and the Heavens

[Rikki Gins]

I came across an interesting app that allows you to see what the Hubble space telescope took a picture of on your birthday.  Here:  https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/what-did-hubble-see-on-your-birthday

Here is the photo that the telescope took on my birthday back in 2002.  It shows Arp 220, a couple of spiral galaxies that started to collide some 700 million years ago.  They are located about 250 million light-years from Earth.

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[anniem]

I came across an interesting app that allows you to see what the Hubble space telescope took a picture of on your birthday.  Here:  https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/what-did-hubble-see-on-your-birthday

Here is the photo that the telescope took on my birthday back in 2002.  It shows Arp 220, a couple of spiral galaxies that started to collide some 700 million years ago.  They are located about 250 million light-years from Earth.

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This is great! I don't actually have to do it, I can just look at yours.   

[Rikki Gins]

This is great! I don't actually have to do it, I can just look at yours.   

Yes.  That is so cool!

[PolkaDot]

I came across an interesting app that allows you to see what the Hubble space telescope took a picture of on your birthday.  Here:  https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/what-did-hubble-see-on-your-birthday

Here is the photo that the telescope took on my birthday back in 2002.  It shows Arp 220, a couple of spiral galaxies that started to collide some 700 million years ago.  They are located about 250 million light-years from Earth.

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Wow! Now THAT is a birthday gift!

[TigerLily]

I came across an interesting app that allows you to see what the Hubble space telescope took a picture of on your birthday.  Here:  https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/what-did-hubble-see-on-your-birthday

Here is the photo that the telescope took on my birthday back in 2002.  It shows Arp 220, a couple of spiral galaxies that started to collide some 700 million years ago.  They are located about 250 million light-years from Earth.

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If you stare at it long enough it looks like Peter Falk

[KSM]

If you stare at it long enough it looks like Peter Falk

Or blood spilling into water..

[Rikki Gins]

If you stare at it long enough it looks like Peter Falk

I keep seeing our own @Chimp Covfefe's face in it.

[JUAN]

I keep seeing our own @Chimp Covfefe's face in it.

Me too.

[FISH]

I came across an interesting app that allows you to see what the Hubble space telescope took a picture of on your birthday.  Here:  https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/what-did-hubble-see-on-your-birthday

Here is the photo that the telescope took on my birthday back in 2002.  It shows Arp 220, a couple of spiral galaxies that started to collide some 700 million years ago.  They are located about 250 million light-years from Earth.

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Thanks for sharing, Rikki.
My birthday June 2005

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[Chimp Covfefe]

I keep seeing our own @Chimp Covfefe's face in it.

I am out of this world.

[Millicent]

I came across an interesting app that allows you to see what the Hubble space telescope took a picture of on your birthday.  Here:  https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/what-did-hubble-see-on-your-birthday

Here is the photo that the telescope took on my birthday back in 2002.  It shows Arp 220, a couple of spiral galaxies that started to collide some 700 million years ago.  They are located about 250 million light-years from Earth.

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Thank you so much for sharing this.
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On March 5 in 1999
Galaxy NGC 1512
The core of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1512 is unique for its stunning 2,400-light-year-wide circle of infant star clusters, called a "circumnuclear" starburst ring. Starbursts are episodes of vigorous star formation.

[Rikki Gins]

Thank you so much for sharing this.
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On March 5 in 1999
Galaxy NGC 1512
The core of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1512 is unique for its stunning 2,400-light-year-wide circle of infant star clusters, called a "circumnuclear" starburst ring. Starbursts are episodes of vigorous star formation.

Oh, that is utterly beautiful!

[PolkaDot]

Thank you so much for sharing this.
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On March 5 in 1999
Galaxy NGC 1512
The core of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1512 is unique for its stunning 2,400-light-year-wide circle of infant star clusters, called a "circumnuclear" starburst ring. Starbursts are episodes of vigorous star formation.

Disco egg

[KSM]

Disco egg

Galaxy anus.

[Rikki Gins]

The people at Nasa attached musical notes to the objects in a Hubble Space Telescope photo, and came up with this.  Real music from the stars.