[imagesource: NASA / JPL-Caltech]
NASA’s incredible Hubble Space Telescope orbits Earth every hour of every day, which it has done since it launched in April 1990.
Thus, it has seen all the cosmic delights that occur in our universe, from majestic nebulae to spectacular galaxies, and now NASA is letting you search for a stunning photo taken on your birthday.
Per Mashable, no matter on which day your birthday lands (except for Leap Day babies), Hubble has an impressive image catalogued for you to enjoy.
NASA’s ‘What Did Hubble See on Your Birthday?’ page lets you input a month and a day before it provides a spacey image captured on that day:
Along with each image, NASA provides the year that it was captured and a short description of what it is you’re looking at.
Some of the images are pretty easy to parse, like spiral galaxies, whereas others require a bit of reading to understand, like an infrared view of our own Milky Way galaxy.
You can also click the “More info” link to check out a much more in-depth explanation of each image.
If you want to search for a different birthday, click on the little red X at the top right corner and you’ll return to the search page again.
My birthday shows a brown dwarf, with the image taken in 2005, which seems to be a subtle comment on my height of 147 centimetres:
No matter, as I am assured by the powerful radiance that the brown dwarf exudes.
Play around with NASA’s birthday tool here.
[source:mashable]
