What'd Hubble See on your Birthday?

[Mysterion]

NASA has a new fun web-page: https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/what-did-hubble-see-on-your-birthday

You give it the month and day of your birth and the site will show you a photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope on that date.

For my birthday (7 December) I got a nice pic of the Southern Nebula.

 

[StarCruiser]

Globular cluster M15 for December 20.

 

[Herbert]

Hubble Deep Field (Dec 18)

 

[antinoos]

On September 5 in 2009
Hubble Ultra Deep Field

 

[Colonel Midnight]

On November 27 in 2008
Planetary Nebula NGC 2818
The spectacular structure of the planetary nebula NGC 2818 contains the outer layers of a dying star that were expelled into interstellar space. Our own Sun will undergo a similar process, but not for another 5 billion years or so.

Nice!

Cheers,
-CM-

 

[Captain pl1ngpl0ng]

On July 26 in 2010, 2 million light-years away, the Andromeda Galaxy.

 

[publiusr]

Goods South Field—Sept 22

New coin!
https://www.space.com/hubble-space-telescope-innovation-us-dollar-coin-sale

 

[Non Sync]

Hubble's days may be approaching. An onboard computer which controls the science instruments shutdown on Sunday. A reboot on Monday was unsuccessful. NASA believes the problem is damaged memory and are attempting today to transition to a backup memory unit.

Hubble was launched 24 April 1990. The original computer, Rockwell Autonetics DF-224, is space-qualified with a clock speed of 1.25MHz and was used in 1980's. The computer has been upgraded/replaced with newer versions twice during Hubble servicing missions, the final being in December 1999.

 

[Santaman]

It wasn't built yet when I was born so..

 

[dupersuper]

Quasar 3C 273

 

[Ronald Held]

I presume there is only one backup memory unit?

 

[Non Sync]

It looks like there are six memory units with usually four active at a time, although it can operate with just three.
There are also three CPUs, a primary and two spares.

 

[Non Sync]

Things aren't looking to good. The backup computer, which hadn't been powered up since the last repair mission is experiencing the same memory issues, which suggests the problem is somewhere else. NASA is investigating if there is a power supply problem or with the Standard Interface (STINT) hardware that handle communications between the Central Processing Module (CPM) and other modules, or with the CPM itself.

The satellite is in a safe mode.

The Hubble replacement, the James Webb Telescope, is scheduled to launch no earlier than the end of October due to the European Space Agency Ariane 5 rocket not being ready.

 

[Non Sync]

After a month, NASA has resolved the issues with the Hubble. They switched to a backup Power Control Unit and backup Command Unit/Science Data Formatter.

Link to details

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

It wasn't built yet when I was born so..

Right? I tried October 20, 1967, but nada.

Here's hoping the old girl keeps doing what she does. After the Voyagers, Hubble is the 3rd oldest space probe (?) not counting satellites.

 

[Non Sync]

It wasn't built yet when I was born so..

Space hadn't been invented when I was born...

 

[N-121973]

Galaxy Cluster SDSS J1004+4112.