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This is a list of images released to celebrate the
Hubble Space Telescope
The Hubble Space Telescope (often referred to as HST or Hubble) is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation. It was not the first space telescope, but it is one of the largest and most versa ...
's anniversaries. They celebrate its "birthday" when it was launched into orbit on April 24, 1990, by the crew of Space Shuttle ''Discovery''.
15th (2005)
The 15th anniversary, in 2005, was celebrated with a collection of images of M51 (the Whirlpool Galaxy), and also with a section of the Eagle nebula. The 15th anniversary included a collection of other content including, in multiple languages, the video release, ''Hubble — 15 Years of Discovery''.
17th (2007)
The 17th-anniversary celebration featured a panorama of part of the Carina Nebula, and a collection of images selected from that area.
18th (2008)
59 images of merging galaxies were released for the 18th anniversary on 24 April 2008.19th (2009)
20th (2010)
21st (2011)
22nd (2012)
23rd (2013)
24th (2014)
25th (2015)
26th (2016)
27th (2017)
28th (2018)
29th (2019)
In April 2019, a special celebration image of theSouthern Crab Nebula
The Southern Crab Nebula (or WRAY 16-147 or Hen 2-104) is a nebula in the constellation Centaurus. The nebula is several thousand light years from Earth, and its central star is a symbiotic Mira variable - white dwarf pair. It is named for i ...
(aka Hen 2-104) was released. This nebula is located in the Constellation Centaurus.
30th (2020)
31st (2021)
32nd (2022)
See also
*List of Deep Fields
In astronomy, a deep field is an image of a portion of the sky taken with a very long exposure time, in order to detect and study faint objects. The depth of the field refers to the apparent magnitude or the flux of the faintest objects that can b ...
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