What did space look like on the day you were born? Here’s how to find out – The National

What did space look like on the day you were born? Here’s how to find out – The National

A new Nasa website lets users see through the lens of the Hubble Telescope to mark its 30th birthday. The Hubble Space Telescope has been orbiting the Earth for almost three decades, collecting images of planets, stars and galaxies.. The telescope will mark its 30th birthday on Friday, April 24, after first being launched into the atmosphere in 1990.. Even if you were born in 1990, you might get a result from 1995, for instance, but still on your birthday.. On April 20, 2008, for example, Hubble captured an infrared image of the centre of the Milky Way galaxy.. The telescope, named after astronomer Edwin Hubble, was launched by the space shuttle Discovery, and has gone on to provide scientists with a deeper understanding of how the universe works.. Among its main discoveries, the telescope has helped astronomers narrow down the age of the universe in which we live, and helped determine the rate at which the universe is expanding.. According to Nasa, the Hubble Telescope completes 15 orbits per day, and travels at a rate of 480 kilometres per minute.. Nasa hope to operate Hubble alongside the James Webb Space Telescope, the agency's newest infrared observatory, which is planned