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The Hubble Space Telescope celebrates its 29th birthday in April 2019.

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To mark the occasion, it premiered this image of the Southern Crab Nebula.

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The space telescope continues to reveal the mysteries of the cosmos.

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Here are some achievements from Hubble's latest year in orbit.

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SOLAR SYSTEM

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Hubble showed the seasonal dynamics in the atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune,

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viewed storms on Saturn and Mars during their closest approach to Earth,

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and spotted 'Oumuamua, the first known interstellar object to visit our solar system.

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Hubble caught the mysterious visitor having an unexpected change in speed.

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EXOPLANETS

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Hubble made discoveries about planets around other stars,

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from studying a gas giant with an atmosphere hot enough to melt silver,

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to detecting helium for the first time in
an exoplanet's atmosphere,

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and helping find the first evidence for a
possible moon outside our solar system.

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Hubble also found that young red dwarf stars have more intense flares than older red dwarfs.

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These superflares could endanger any planets forming around the red dwarfs.

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EXTRAGALACTIC

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Hubble premiered this ultra-HD view of the Triangulum Galaxy

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and found that star formation is 10 times more intense here than in the Andromeda Galaxy.

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Hubble finished the larges ultraviolet survey of nearby galaxies.

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More than 50 galaxies were surveyed to better understand star formation.

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Hubble used light from orphaned stars to trace the distribution of dark matter

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and studied merging black holes at the centers of colliding galaxies.

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The Hubble and Gaia telescopes refined the Hubble constant, tracking the universe's growth.

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To learn more about Hubble's continuing mission of discovery, visit...