{"id":19401,"date":"2016-04-21T22:21:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T14:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/hubble-bubble-nebula-shines-on-birthday-card-for-26-year-old-space-telescope\/"},"modified":"2016-04-21T22:21:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T14:21:18","slug":"hubble-bubble-nebula-shines-on-birthday-card-for-26-year-old-space-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/hubble-bubble-nebula-shines-on-birthday-card-for-26-year-old-space-telescope\/","title":{"rendered":"Hubble bubble! Nebula shines on birthday card for 26-year-old space telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_245167\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-245167\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-245167\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/160421-bubble-630x599.jpg\" alt=\"Bubble Nebula by Hubble\" width=\"630\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/160421-bubble-630x599.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/160421-bubble-768x730.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/160421-bubble-1240x1178.jpg 1240w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/160421-bubble.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-245167\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bubble Nebula, also known as NGC 7653, is an emission nebula located 8,000 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia. (Credit: NASA \/ ESA \/ Hubble Heritage Team)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It\u2019s been 26 years since the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit, but the Bubble Nebula picture unveiled to mark its birthday would make the great observatory feel like a kid again.<\/p>\n<p>Anthropomorphizing inanimate objects is usually&nbsp;a bad idea: They hate that. But every April, the telescope\u2019s science team releases an eye-opening picture as a birthday present. It\u2019s not really for Hubble. It\u2019s for its fans.<\/p>\n<p>The telescope went into space aboard the shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990, went through a mission-saving series of optical repairs in 1993, had its final servicing mission in 2009, and is continuing to send back jaw-dropping pictures of the universe.<\/p>\n<p>Hubble has previously captured views of the Bubble Nebula, also known as NGC 7635. But this time, the science team knit together four images from the telescope\u2019s Wide Field Camera 3 to show off the bubble in its entirety.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Hubblecast 92: 26th anniversary\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/163662105?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The nebula, which lies 8,000 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia, was first spotted by astronomer William Herschel in 1787. Since then, astronomers have learned that it\u2019s a 10-light-year-wide shell of glowing gas, pushed outward from a star that\u2019s 10 to 20 times as massive as the sun.<\/p>\n<p>The gassy bubble is expanding at the rate of more than 60,000 mph, and the&nbsp;pressure against the surrounding interstellar medium is what&nbsp;shapes the nebula&nbsp;into a nearly perfect sphere.<\/p>\n<p>Even as scientists celebrate Hubble\u2019s anniversary, they\u2019re getting ready for another blessed event: the launch of the bigger, more capable James Webb Telescope in October 2018. So that\u2019ll make <em>two<\/em> birthdays to remember.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bubble Nebula, also known as NGC 7653, is an emission nebula located 8,000 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia. (Credit: NASA \/ ESA \/ Hubble Heritage Team) It\u2019s been 26 years since the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit, but the Bubble Nebula picture unveiled to mark its birthday would make the great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1661,5565,898],"class_list":["post-19401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-astronomy","tag-bubble-nebula","tag-hubble-space-telescope"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}