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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. —Albert Einstein Your birthday—August 4, 2013—will forever be connected to the solar eclipse that occurred on that day at 2:48 UTC over the North Atlantic Ocean and Greenland (the path of totality included parts of Iceland, Norway, Ireland, Scotland, England, and Germany). You can explore a few other sky objects and events in NASA’s gallery of astronomy pictures that were created using data from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft.
Know your birthday
Each day, NASA publishes a new astronomy picture of what’s going on in our universe. However, if you don’t know your exact birthday (or at least within a week or so), then you probably won’t find your astronomical picture of birth. That’s because NASA only shows pictures for specific dates and times—so be sure to know when you were born! And if it turns out that there wasn’t anything particularly special about your time of birth, never fear; NASA has pictures for any time and date. So go ahead and look up an astronomy picture for yourself right now!
Find an astronomy photo
NASA’s website has links to a wide variety of space photos—click on any photo to find out more about it. When you select a photo, make sure that you are looking at an astronomical picture, not a meteorological one! The big difference is that astronomy pictures are taken by professional photographers using state-of-the-art equipment and tracking software. In contrast, meteorological pictures come from satellites designed to monitor weather patterns and generally use very high resolution (read: poor quality) cameras. Looking at NASA's Space Photos website is one way to search for astronomy pictures specifically; another way is to search around specific astrophotography websites such as xxx (put your own urls here).
Write something about it
Born on March 23, 1945, astronaut Buzz Aldrin was an early proponent of interplanetary travel. In 1969, Aldrin became famous for his work with Neil Armstrong as part of NASA’s Apollo 11 team. The two landed on and walked on the moon in July of that year; their journey to space is legendary in space exploration circles. After leaving NASA in 1971, Aldrin became active with several organizations focusing on creating commercialized space travel. As an author and artist, he has produced many books based around these ideas and has even created designs for interplanetary transport systems . Though some have questioned whether he can work independently given his age, there is no doubt that Aldrin will continue pushing for more opportunities to explore space in years to come.
Tag @NASA on Twitter
There are few better ways to learn about your birthday than by getting it directly from one of the biggest space agencies in existence. Since you’re on Twitter, tag @NASA on Twitter and they will send a reply with an astronomy picture that was taken that day. Not only is it educational but it also gives them a follow!