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The Hubble Space Telescope celebrated
its 30th birthday on April 24, 2020.

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To mark the occasion, it premiered this
image of a giant red nebula (NGC 2014)
and its smaller blue neighbor (NGC 2020).

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Both are part of a star-forming region in
the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy
of the Milky Way, located 163,000 light-years away.

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Hubble 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 captured detailed images of
Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, and Saturn.

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Hubble also captured images of the
first confirmed interstellar comet to visit
our solar system: Comet 2I/Borisov.

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Hubble identified regular table salt hiding in
plain sight on the surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa.

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The salt could come from a subsurface ocean, which
might be more like Earth’s oceans than once thought.

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EXOPLANETS

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Hubble detected water vapor in the atmosphere
of an exoplanet in its star’s “habitable zone.”

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K2-18b is the only exoplanet known
to have water in its atmosphere...

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...and temperatures that could
sustain liquid water if it is rocky.

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Hubble helped to uncover clues about the
atmosphere and origins of exoplanet GJ 3470 b.

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Bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune,
this planet is unlike anything in our solar system...

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...but planets like it are common
elsewhere in the galaxy.

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EXTRAGALACTIC

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The Hubble Legacy Field combines 16 years of observations
to trace the history of the universe.

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This vast portrait of the cosmos
contains roughly 265,000 galaxies…

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...stretching back 13.3
billion years through time.

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Astronomers used the telescope to refine
the Hubble constant, tracking the universe’s growth.

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After 30 years, Hubble continues its mission of discovery,
further uncovering the mysteries of the universe.

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