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This is one of the strongest solar storms in ages. View from ISS is incredible.

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Celebrate Your Special Day With Hubble

This is the Veil Nebula, which Hubble saw on July 1, 2020.

Have you ever looked up what our Hubble Space Telescope saw on your birthday? (Or your anniversary, or your pet's adoption day, or...)

We've given our popular interactive page a new look — and, just as importantly, it now shows you five different cosmic sights Hubble was checking out on the day that you picked.

Take a look!

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Saturn by JWST

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The planet Saturn🪐

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Jupiter in Ultraviolet from ESA/Hubble

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NASA releases new image of planet Jupiter captured by James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful telescope ever built.

POST: Astronomy Today

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The Pistol Star is one of the brightest stars in our galaxy, but it can only be seen in infrared light. Two large magenta shells of gas are expanding from the star, which unleashes as much energy in six seconds as our sun does in one year.

Scientists used the Hubble Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) in 1997 to observe the star and surrounding nebula. The nebula is so big (it’s four light-years across) that it would nearly span the distance from our sun to Alpha Centauri, the nearest star to our solar system.

The Pistol Star is not visible to the human eye, but it is located 25,000 light-years away in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, hidden behind the great dust clouds along the Milky Way.

Credit: Don F. Figer (UCLA), and NASA/ESA.