A NASA tool that allows users to look for pictures that the Hubble Space Telescope took on their birthdays has unexpectedly become very popular on TikTok. NASA created the app to encourage users to share their discoveries using the hashtag #Hubble30 in honour of the Hubble Space Telescope’s 30th anniversary in 2020. The hashtags #nasabirthday, with 21.1 million views, #nasabirthdaypictures, with 4.5 million views, and #nasabirthdaypicture, with over 85,000 views are being used by social media users to share their findings from this website and another similar collection on TikTok. The outcomes of their search, however, weren’t received favourably by everyone.
urfavhotgemini777, a TikToker, bemoaned their inability to pinpoint precisely what NASA had observed on their birthday in a video that has received 2.6 million views. The shadow of a kitchen strainer can be seen on a jumper in another TikTok user’s video with 7.2 million views, which notes that they most likely have the worst NASA birthday image. On a different image calendar, the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) calendar website, both of these users looked up their birthdays. Another TikTok user, bfreestone15, who used the APOD website, expressed displeasure that a video that had been viewed 1.7 million times depicted their birthday, April 1, as an April Fool’s joke.
Where To Get Your NASA Birthday Image
The Hubble birthday celebration website and the APOD site are slightly different from one another. The latter assigns, irrespective of the year, a day to images captured by Hubble on a specific date. The former appoints a particular image to every day of every month of every year. A person born on April 26, 2002, won’t get the same image as a person born on April 26, 2007, for example, so there is a lot more variety in the images a person can get. However, some of the images might be unsatisfying. It also means anyone born before June 1995 won’t have a specific image assigned to their birthday on the APOD calendar. However, images of people who were born before the dawn of the modern era of astronomy can be found using the NASA calendar. Images captured on some of the most illustrious scientists’ birthdays are included in this.
Hubble Images for Science’s Most Important Birthdays
Arguably the most influential scientist of all time, especially when it comes to physics and space exploration, is Isaac Newton. Newton, who served as the catalyst for the scientific revolution of the 17th century, was born on January 4th, 1643. On January 4, 1998, which would have been Newton’s 355th birthday, Hubble captured an amazing infrared image of Saturn, which can be found by searching for January 4 on the NASA Hubble birthday site. On January 4, 1998—Isaac Newton’s 355th birthday—a stunning infrared image of Saturn and its rings was captured.
Up until Albert Einstein introduced general relativity in 1915, Newton’s laws of motion would have been the most accurate description of the physics of the universe. Einstein was born on March 14, 1879, in Ulm, Germany. APR 297, a pair of interacting galaxies made up of the larger galaxy NGC 5754 and its smaller companion NGC 5752, was captured by Hubble on what would have been the great physicist’s 120th birthday.
