ALT Hubble image of NGC 6426, a compact grouping of a multitude of stars shine in red, white, and blue against the dark background of space. The stars are more densely collected toward the center of the cluster.

ALT Blue and white stars are sprinkled throughout a landscape of red clouds of gas and dark, swirling lanes of dust. Many additional stars are visible in the dark background of space.

ALT In this illustration, the LINK spacecraft from Katalyst Space attaches to NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory in preparation to gradually lift Swift back to its original altitude. LINK, a silver rectangular spacecraft with large blue solar arrays on either side, uses three robotic arms to attach to Swift, a gold spacecraft with shorter black solar arrays. Three blue thrusters fire at the bottom of LINK. Swift has a more cylindrical body with a rectangular projection at the front. The left half of the background is taken up by a view of Earth, and the blackness of space fills the right. This image is watermarked with “Artist’s concept” and “Credit: Katalyst Space.”

ALT Side-by-side images of FS Tau, a star-forming nebula. The left, labeled Webb, shows clouds of transparent blue and purple gas and dust extending from the center to the right. Several yellow and white protostars, some showing Webb’s eight-pronged diffraction pattern, are within the clouds. Orange wisps of gas extend from one of the protostars at the center toward the top left and bottom right corners. The right, labeled Hubble, shows a bright white point made up of two orbiting stars with a four-pronged diffraction pattern to the right of center. At 2 o’clock from this star, there is another, smaller protostar, surrounded by a dark disk of matter. In the center of the image is a cavity where the clouds are thinner and background stars shine through. The stars and protostar are on the edges of this cavity and are surrounded by dark clouds that appear like thick smoke

ALT Two bulbous, bluish clouds of gas against a field of multi-colored stars. Stars shine within the clouds as well as outside.

ALT Two overlapping galaxies loosely resemble an X. Foreground stars and more distant galaxies shine against black space.

ALT Thousands of stars crowd closely together, shining in hues of yellow, white, and blue.

ALT A screenshot of the "What Did Hubble See On Your Birthday" website, with buttons to "Select Your Birth Date" and five Hubble photos displayed beneath. A reddish-blue star system faintly fills the background. Credit: NASA

ALT Against an image of the Omega Nebula, white text reads "What Did Hubble See on Your Birthday? Select Your Birth Date." The date is selected to July 1 and shows five images in a row beneath white text that reads "Click on the images below to explore your birthday views."

ALT A black and white cutout of Nancy Grace Roman as a young woman, smiling with her hands behind her back. She has short, curly hair, and is wearing a white blouse and long, dark skirt. A purple Roman boarding pass is attached to her torso. She is superimposed on a Hubble image of star-forming region GAL-305.20 00.2. A field of glittering multicolored stars. Bluish clouds of gas edged in glowing red cluster at the top of the image and in a clump to the right. A single shining star throws diffraction spikes across the upper left of the image.

ALT A bust of Robert Goddard, cast in a bronze color. He has a purple Roman boarding pass attached to his lapel. He is superimposed on a Hubble image of spiral galaxy NGC 3596. The galaxy’s center appears as a bright white spot surrounded by a golden glow. Two spiral arms extend out from the center, wrapping around the galaxy and broadening out to form the thick outer edge of the disk. Thin reddish strands of dust and bright pink spots follow the arms through the disk. Faint strands of stars extend from the tips of the spiral arms and out beyond the disk.

ALT A spiral galaxy fills the image. Its yellow core is surrounded by large spiraling arms full of bright blue stars and dark brown lanes of dust. Several foreground stars shine throughout with diffraction spikes.

ALT A globular cluster. It holds many thousands of bright stars, tightly packed in the center and spread out in its outer regions, but filling the entire view. The stars are colored either orange or bright blue, with the blue stars mainly concentrated in the center. Orange stars are located mainly around the edge and vary in size from small dots to glowing stars with four points, based on their position in the foreground or background of the cluster.

ALT A glowing galaxy shines at the center of the image, surrounded by star-studded black space. The galaxy glows bright white and blue, but has swirling dark brown dust covering its center.

ALT Composite image of edge-on spiral starburst galaxy Messier 82 as observed by NASA's James Webb and Hubble space telescopes. Hourglass-shaped plumes of gas are shooting outward from above and below a bright blue-white, disk-shaped center. The plumes are yellow near the galaxy’s bright center, denoting areas of ionized hydrogen gas as observed by Hubble, and gradually become redder as you move farther away. Messier 82 is set against the black background of space, which has many distant galaxies that appear as small white and orange spirals, ovals, and points of light. Toward the right of Messier 82 is a blue-white star with eight-pointed diffraction spikes that are characteristic of Webb.

ALT Several massive elliptical galaxies appear to sit in a nearly horizontal line across the center of the image. Numerous spiral, lenticular, and smaller elliptical galaxies dot the space surrounding the giant ellipticals.