List of Hubble anniversary images

List of Hubble anniversary images is a list of images released to celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope anniversaries. The celebrate its "birthday" when it was launched into orbit on April 23, 1990 by the Space Shuttle with its crew.[1]

15th (2005)

The 15th anniversary, in 2005, was celebrated with a collection of images of M51 (the whirlpool galaxy), and also with a section of the Eagle nebula.[2] The 15th anniversary included a collection of other content including, in multiple languages, the video release, Hubble — 15 Years of Discovery.[3]

15th anniversary image - 2005 – M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy, including NGC 5194 and NGC 5195.[2]

17th (2007)

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. Hubble does not travel to stars, planets and galaxies. It takes pictures of them as it whirls around Earth at 17,500 miles an hour. In its 17-year lifetime, the telescope has made nearly 100,000 trips around our planet.
— 17th Annivesary Press release[5]
17th anniversary image - 2007 – part of the Carina Nebula including the star system WR 22 and open cluster (stars) Trumpler 14

18th (2008

59 images of merging galaxies were released for the 18th anniversary on 24 April 2008. [6]

19th (2009)

19th anniversary image - 2009 – Arp 194 [7]

20th (2010)

20th anniversary image - 2010 – 'Mystic Mountain' in Carina nebula [8]

21st (2011)

21st anniversary image - 2011 – Arp 273, which is UGC 1810 and UGC 1813, called a "rose" of galaxies in this release.[9]

22nd (2012)

22nd anniversary image - 2012 – 30 Doradus in Tarantula Nebula[10]

23rd (2013)

23rd anniversary image - 2013 – Horsehead nebula in infrared light[10]

25th (2015)

25th anniversary image - April 2015 – Westerlund 2[11]

26th (2016)

26th anniversary image - April 2016 – the Bubble nebula[12]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Hubble Sees a Horsehead of a Different Color | NASA". nasa.gov. Retrieved 2016-11-25.
  2. 1 2 "HubbleSite - NewsCenter - Hubble celebrates 15th anniversary with spectacular new images (25 April 2005) - Introduction". hubblesite.org. Retrieved 2016-11-25.
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  6. ↑ "HubbleSite - NewsCenter - Cosmic Collisions Galore! (04/24/2008) - Release Images". hubblesite.org. Retrieved 2016-11-25.
  7. ↑ "HubbleSite - NewsCenter - Hubble Celebrates Its 19th Anniversary with a "Fountain of Youth" (04/21/2009) - Introduction". hubblesite.org. Retrieved 2016-11-25.
  8. ↑ "HubbleSite - NewsCenter - Starry-Eyed Hubble Celebrates 20 Years of Awe and Discovery (04/22/2010) - Introduction". hubblesite.org. Retrieved 2016-11-25.
  9. ↑ "NASA - NASA's Hubble Celebrates 21st Anniversary with 'Rose' of Galaxies". nasa.gov. Retrieved 2016-11-25.
  10. 1 2 "HubbleSite - NewsCenter - Hubble's 22nd Anniversary Image Shows Turbulent Star-making Region (04/17/2012) - Release Images". hubblesite.org. Retrieved 2016-11-25.
  11. ↑ "HubbleSite - NewsCenter - Hubble Space Telescope Celebrates 25 Years of Unveiling the Universe (04/23/2015) - Release Images". hubblesite.org. Retrieved 2016-11-25.
  12. ↑ "Hubble captures birthday bubble | ESA/Hubble". spacetelescope.org. Retrieved 2016-11-25.
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