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What 'photo' did NASA take on your birthday? Learn how to view it with a free tool

oglobo28 August 2026 at 05:00

NASA provides a free tool that allows you to discover which image of the universe was recorded by the Hubble Space Telescope on your birthday. To make the query, simply provide your birth day and month, with no registration or app download required.

The tool is accessible on the Goddard Space Flight Center page. The photograph does not need to have been captured in the same year the user was born, as it corresponds only to the calendar date, and may have been recorded in another period.

To use the service, the user must access the page, select their birth day and month from the available menus, and press the "Seguinte" button. The system then searches the database for the image corresponding to that specific date.

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