We hope you can join us for a belated 30th birthday party for the Hubble Telescope to recognize three decades of amazing images and discoveries from this space telescope! On Friday, September 25th at 11 am you will be able to make star finders, vote for your favorite Hubble image, toast the telescope with cupcakes, and take home telescope image lithographs. We will also be unveiling a banner-sized version of the 30th Anniversary Image of NGC 2014 and NGC 2020 (“Cosmic Reef”) granted by the Space Telescope Science Institute. This event, which does not include admission to the exhibit galleries or planetarium, is free; donations are welcome.

Thanks to everyone who joined us for our very first Facebook Live event, in celebration of the Hubble Space Telescope’s 30th birthday! Faithe and Sarah had a blast presenting on live video feed about the history and significance of the Hubble Space Telescope. (Hubble launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990.)

In this post, we share additional Hubble resources, to keep the learning coming all weekend. In particular, there are plenty of opportunities to dive deeper into the Cosmic Reef—which we are able to visit via the special Hubble image “Tapestry of Blazing Starbirth” that was publicly revealed for the first time on April 24, 2020.