G. S. Jennsen

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Happy 31st Birthday, Hubble

This video is absolutely stunning, and not *just* because it features one of my favorite places in space: https://youtu.be/vkFe4_wjRlY

More info about AG Carinae and the video can be found here: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/hubble-captures-giant-star-on-the-edge-of-destruction

Fun Hubble facts:

Launched on April 24, 1990, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made more than 1.5 million observations of about 48,000 celestial objects.

Hubble observations have produced more than 169 terabytes of data, which are available for present and future generations of researchers.

Astronomers using Hubble data have published more than 18,000 scientific papers, with more than 900 of those papers published in 2020.

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