# šŸ”­šŸŒŸ What did the Hubble telescope see on your birthday? **URL:** \ **Category:** Reasonably serious discussion\ **Created:** [16 April 2020 20:15 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-did-the-hubble-telescope-see-on-your-birthday/5548 "2020-04-16T20:15:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fatso](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/fatso/32/18_2.png) [@Fatso](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Fatso)\ **Post date:** [16 April 2020 20:15 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-did-the-hubble-telescope-see-on-your-birthday/5548/1 "2020-04-16T20:15:07Z")
I saw this on hot UK deals website. Itā€™s pretty cool. [https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/what-did-hubble-see-on-your-birthday](https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/what-did-hubble-see-on-your-birthday) This is mineā€¦ This image shows the inner region of Abel 1689, an immense cutler of galaxies located 2 2 billion light years away. ![Screenshot_20200416-210731~2](https://discourse-sotonians-uploads.s3.dualstack.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/2X/4/4dae2cada6e118774324a324b3cce9c372a86ec7.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![gavstar](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/gavstar/32/86128_2.png) [@gavstar](https://www.sotonians.com/u/gavstar)\ **Post date:** [16 April 2020 20:17 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-did-the-hubble-telescope-see-on-your-birthday/5548/2 "2020-04-16T20:17:09Z")
![](https://discourse-sotonians-uploads.s3.dualstack.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/2X/3/379ab879ceaa7152f4371654b8e63338318a5940.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Goatboy](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/goatboy/32/167_2.png) [@Goatboy](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Goatboy)\ **Post date:** [16 April 2020 20:17 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-did-the-hubble-telescope-see-on-your-birthday/5548/3 "2020-04-16T20:17:51Z")
![alienpoo](https://discourse-sotonians-uploads.s3.dualstack.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/2X/2/23f287a6a9d1c8636c0fe31951cfbc8df477d188.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![gavstar](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/gavstar/32/86128_2.png) [@gavstar](https://www.sotonians.com/u/gavstar)\ **Post date:** [16 April 2020 20:18 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-did-the-hubble-telescope-see-on-your-birthday/5548/4 "2020-04-16T20:18:11Z")
Apparently Hubble was looking up my butt for polyps. ---
**Author:** ![Goatboy](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/goatboy/32/167_2.png) [@Goatboy](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Goatboy)\ **Post date:** [16 April 2020 20:18 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-did-the-hubble-telescope-see-on-your-birthday/5548/5 "2020-04-16T20:18:58Z")
My poor search history ā˜¹ ---
**Author:** ![Fatso](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/fatso/32/18_2.png) [@Fatso](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Fatso)\ **Post date:** [16 April 2020 20:21 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-did-the-hubble-telescope-see-on-your-birthday/5548/6 "2020-04-16T20:21:13Z")
What is it? ---
**Author:** ![Goatboy](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/goatboy/32/167_2.png) [@Goatboy](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Goatboy)\ **Post date:** [16 April 2020 20:21 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-did-the-hubble-telescope-see-on-your-birthday/5548/7 "2020-04-16T20:21:48Z")
Itā€™s that smelly bit at the top of his legs. ---
**Author:** ![gavstar](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/gavstar/32/86128_2.png) [@gavstar](https://www.sotonians.com/u/gavstar)\ **Post date:** [16 April 2020 20:22 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-did-the-hubble-telescope-see-on-your-birthday/5548/8 "2020-04-16T20:22:04Z")
4 Images of Mars during itā€™s rotation. ---
**Author:** ![Map-Of-Tasmania](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/map-of-tasmania/32/1298_2.png) [@Map-Of-Tasmania](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Map-Of-Tasmania)\ **Post date:** [16 April 2020 20:28 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-did-the-hubble-telescope-see-on-your-birthday/5548/9 "2020-04-16T20:28:11Z")
![image](https://discourse-sotonians-uploads.s3.dualstack.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/2X/2/229dad73c0e9840308dc407c7b06c2f365d7626b.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Polski\_Filip](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/polski_filip/32/75318_2.png) [@Polski\_Filip](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Polski_Filip)\ **Post date:** [16 April 2020 20:28 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-did-the-hubble-telescope-see-on-your-birthday/5548/10 "2020-04-16T20:28:22Z")
The opening credits of one of the post TNG Star Trek shows ![Screenshot_20200416-222636_Samsung Internet](https://discourse-sotonians-uploads.s3.dualstack.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/2X/1/1e0a1c40a2de07a2041ca56a87dcc40237ec7045.jpeg) Comet Siding Springā€¦ Well, that wasted 10 minutes ---
**Author:** ![Fowllyd](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/fowllyd/32/74248_2.png) [@Fowllyd](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Fowllyd)\ **Post date:** [16 April 2020 21:49 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-did-the-hubble-telescope-see-on-your-birthday/5548/11 "2020-04-16T21:49:58Z")
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows Supernova 1987A within the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighboring galaxy to our Milky Way. Distant stars serve as a backdrop for Supernova 1987A, located in the center of the image. The bright ring around the central region of the exploded star is composed of material ejected by the star about 20,000 years before its demise. Gaseous clouds surround the supernova. The cloudsā€™ red color represents the glow of hydrogen gas, which is fueling a firestorm of star birth. Hereā€™s what it was looking at on my birthday in 2017. It normally has a quiet kip in January, as the days are short, but that year it woke up for a bit. Supernova 1987A was discovered in 1987, and Hubble began observing the exploded star in the early 1990s. This latest view was taken by Hubbleā€™s Wide Field Camera 3 in January 2017. The colors of the foreground and background stars were added from observations taken by Hubbleā€™s Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. Supernova 1987A resides 163,000 light-years away. ![](https://discourse-sotonians-uploads.s3.dualstack.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/2X/0/0fcc64cbc3dc7c8d2b0c4db961b4c3a136d666ef.png) ---
**Author:** ![scotty](https://www.sotonians.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scotty](https://www.sotonians.com/u/scotty)\ **Post date:** [16 April 2020 23:30 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-did-the-hubble-telescope-see-on-your-birthday/5548/12 "2020-04-16T23:30:06Z")
Abel cluster 2744, apparentlyā€¦ ![august-23-2019-galaxy-cluster-abell-2744](https://discourse-sotonians-uploads.s3.dualstack.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/2X/4/4a91d472e827292ef9eaf208a4ba22b808756e47.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![gavstar](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/gavstar/32/86128_2.png) [@gavstar](https://www.sotonians.com/u/gavstar)\ **Post date:** [16 April 2020 23:34 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-did-the-hubble-telescope-see-on-your-birthday/5548/13 "2020-04-16T23:34:49Z")
Do you and Fatso have the same birthday šŸ§ ---
**Author:** ![PhilippineSaint](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/philippinesaint/32/3978_2.png) [@PhilippineSaint](https://www.sotonians.com/u/PhilippineSaint)\ **Post date:** [17 April 2020 01:45 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-did-the-hubble-telescope-see-on-your-birthday/5548/14 "2020-04-17T01:45:53Z")
Mars showing itā€™s crack. ![august-24-2019-mars](https://discourse-sotonians-uploads.s3.dualstack.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/2X/4/4f2cfcf20d769420a9c03e6295dedbb409ae02fa.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Won-Ton](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/won-ton/32/68_2.png) [@Won-Ton](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Won-Ton)\ **Post date:** [17 April 2020 04:20 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-did-the-hubble-telescope-see-on-your-birthday/5548/15 "2020-04-17T04:20:42Z")
![](https://discourse-sotonians-uploads.s3.dualstack.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/2X/c/cbda732d29ba09f2dbf38828e93c895fed0ce702.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Map-Of-Tasmania](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/map-of-tasmania/32/1298_2.png) [@Map-Of-Tasmania](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Map-Of-Tasmania)\ **Post date:** [17 April 2020 06:08 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-did-the-hubble-telescope-see-on-your-birthday/5548/16 "2020-04-17T06:08:48Z")
Hubble? Iā€™d be more concerned about who is watching usā€¦ ![Unknown](https://discourse-sotonians-uploads.s3.dualstack.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/2X/0/0768ba64163abb76a59dcdf4c90120a404680f35.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![CB-Saint](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/cb-saint/32/95251_2.png) [@CB-Saint](https://www.sotonians.com/u/CB-Saint)\ **Post date:** [17 April 2020 06:53 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-did-the-hubble-telescope-see-on-your-birthday/5548/17 "2020-04-17T06:53:23Z")
![image](https://discourse-sotonians-uploads.s3.dualstack.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/2X/b/bf82f1b25c8651c73b9a146d814c84cd2aec64a1.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![pap](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/pap/32/74795_2.png) [@pap](https://www.sotonians.com/u/pap)\ **Post date:** [17 April 2020 07:56 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-did-the-hubble-telescope-see-on-your-birthday/5548/18 "2020-04-17T07:56:43Z")
Snap ---
**Author:** ![saintbletch](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/saintbletch/32/618_2.png) [@saintbletch](https://www.sotonians.com/u/saintbletch)\ **Post date:** [17 April 2020 08:48 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-did-the-hubble-telescope-see-on-your-birthday/5548/19 "2020-04-17T08:48:45Z")
![image](https://discourse-sotonians-uploads.s3.dualstack.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/2X/9/95b7574f826d7ab8440c8f60d395d2817d389950.jpeg) # Galaxy NGC 300 NGC 300 is a spiral galaxy similar to our own Milky Way galaxy. Some of the bright blue specks in this image are young, massive stars called blue supergiants, and they are among the brightest stars seen in spiral galaxies. ---
**Author:** ![saintbletch](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/saintbletch/32/618_2.png) [@saintbletch](https://www.sotonians.com/u/saintbletch)\ **Post date:** [17 April 2020 08:57 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-did-the-hubble-telescope-see-on-your-birthday/5548/20 "2020-04-17T08:57:24Z")
Hereā€™s @lifeintheslowlaneā€™s # Ab initio ![image](https://discourse-sotonians-uploads.s3.dualstack.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/2X/2/21d93ca05e574b2a504e1fcf3c6387e932e7073d.jpeg) [Next page](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-did-the-hubble-telescope-see-on-your-birthday/5548.md?page=2)