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NASA, ESA, and J. Lee (California Institute of Technology)
Leaving this planet for vacation may not be in the cards just yet (don’t worry, the option is coming), but you can at least mentally escape for a moment, thanks to a few stunning images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope over the last 30 years.
In 2020, the Hubble telescope turned 30. To mark the milestone, NASA released dozens of unseen images taken by the instrument over the years, including galaxies, star clusters, and nebulae.
However, as NASA noted, there’s something extra special about these images, and that is the fact that all the space objects can also be seen through backyard telescopes. Some, NASA added, can even be seen through binoculars or even the naked eye. “All of these celestial objects belong to a collection known to amateur astronomers as the Caldwell catalog,” NASA explained in a blog post about the new photos. The images, it added, were compiled by British amateur astronomer and science communicator Sir Patrick Caldwell-Moore. His collection was then published by