Wednesday, April 24, 2013

The Hubble Space Telescope after it is docked with space shuttle Atlantis during STS-125 on May 13, 2009.
NASA

Happy Birthday, Hubble! Today marks 23 years since the iconic telescope was launched aboard space shuttle Discovery on STS-31. I have the sudden urge to watch Hubble 3D at the California Science Center (again) to commemorate today's anniversary...assuming, of course, the awesome 2010 IMAX film is still showing at the museum. I'll visit the science center anyway, just to see Endeavour in person once more. Space exploration rocks.

One of the Hubble Space Telescope's latest images: a photo of Comet (C/2012 S1) ISON that HST took as the comet was 386 million miles from the Sun on April 10, 2013.
NASA, ESA, J.-Y. Li (Planetary Science Institute), and the Hubble Comet ISON Imaging Science Team

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