The Hubble Space Telescope celebrates its 29th birthday in April 2019.
To mark the occasion, it premiered this image of the Southern Crab Nebula.
The space telescope continues to reveal the mysteries of the cosmos.
Here are some achievements from Hubble's latest year in orbit.
SOLAR SYSTEM
Hubble showed the seasonal dynamics in the atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune,
viewed storms on Saturn and Mars during their closest approach to Earth,
and spotted 'Oumuamua, the first known interstellar object to visit our solar system.
Hubble caught the mysterious visitor having an unexpected change in speed.
EXOPLANETS
Hubble made discoveries about planets around other stars,
from studying a gas giant with an atmosphere hot enough to melt silver,
to detecting helium for the first time in an exoplanet's atmosphere,
and helping find the first evidence for a possible moon outside our solar system.
Hubble also found that young red dwarf stars have more intense flares than older red dwarfs.
These superflares could endanger any planets forming around the red dwarfs.
EXTRAGALACTIC
Hubble premiered this ultra-HD view of the Triangulum Galaxy
and found that star formation is 10 times more intense here than in the Andromeda Galaxy.
Hubble finished the larges ultraviolet survey of nearby galaxies.
More than 50 galaxies were surveyed to better understand star formation.
Hubble used light from orphaned stars to trace the distribution of dark matter
and studied merging black holes at the centers of colliding galaxies.
The Hubble and Gaia telescopes refined the Hubble constant, tracking the universe's growth.
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