Source: Hubblesite.org. Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI)
Today we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope. Hurrah! Although it’s clearly impossible, as I haven’t aged more than, oh, 10 years since then.
The folks at NASA and ESA have released a set of gorgeous new images and videos of the Carina Nebula, a region of active star formation in our Galaxy.
The European Hubble team have also taken the occasion to launch a rather nice looking new website, check it out here.
The same team are organising a competition to find the most artistic, funniest, weirdest, largest and smallest manifestations of Hubble and its images in popular culture – that’s a fun idea. Anyone can join the Flickr group and submit images, and the category winners get some cool prizes. Read more here.
Google joined in the celebration with a lovely doodle for the day:
As its host just told me he reads this blog, I’m going to post the first part anniversary edition of the regular Hubble videocast, HubbleCast, here for the occasion too. Looking sharp in that bow tie, Dr J! (second part here)
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