text: Rose-colored Hubble photo is your daily reminder that space is cool – Mashable – VIP Tech
  Take this newly shared image of NGC 972, a spiral galaxy discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel in 1784. It's not our closest neighbor, at around 70 million light-years away, but it sure takes a good photo.
  NASA shares photos like this one all the time, and they never get old. Hubble is a frequent source of the stellar imagery, but remember: it launched in 1990 and is almost 30 years old now. It's been serviced and upgraded over time, but it's still an older piece of technology.
  While Hubble is expected to stick around and continue beaming imagery back to Earth for another 10-20 years, its successor — the James Webb Space Telescope — is expected to launch in early 2021, and bring an array of improvements to Hubble's core mission of peering into deep space.