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Reader Photo Gallery: Your Desk Celebrates Hubble's 20th Anniversary

The Hubble Space Telescope’s journey crossed the double-decade mark today, and our readers and followers are celebrating the beloved satellite with their desktops. For the past five weeks, we’ve asked followers of @wiredscience on Twitter to change their computer backgrounds to some of our favorite Hubble images and send us a photo of their workstations.This […]
Our first ever iPad entry is from smbeaverson. This one might have taken top honors if it had been an actual photo of...

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The Hubble Space Telescope's journey crossed the double-decade mark today, and our readers and followers are celebrating the beloved satellite with their desktops.

For the past five weeks, we've asked followers of @wiredscience on Twitter to change their computer backgrounds to some of our favorite Hubble images and send us a photo of their workstations.This week, we featured Hubble's newest image, a spectacular shot of part of the Carina Nebula. Above is our favorite Space Desk this week, from @moshbrown, who may have gotten some extra credit for having Wired Science on the desktop as well.

We've collected some of the best shots here from the whole series on the following pages. If you need more Space Desk, we've included links to each weeks' gallery of entries.

Carina Nebula complete Space Desk gallery

This week's honorable mentions:

Also among our favorites is this shot from Jim Hanley who may have cheated a little by including supercute photos of his...

Previous weeks' Space Desks on the following pages.

Week 4: Cat's Eye Nebula Space Desks

Last week's Cat's Eye Nebula Space Desk winner was paukee.
christian anderl
Honorable mention astrolisa. It looks like the Cat's Eye Nebula is streaming out of her computer.
Honorable mention It's not favoritism we swear The mobile desk of alexismadrigal at the Psychedelic Science in the 21st...

Week 3: Jupiter Space Desks

Image may contain Office Building Building Architecture Urban Convention Center Town City and High Rise

Photo: New York Times headquarters Credit:Joe Shlabotnik

Honorable mention We liked how bph included the previous weeks' Space Desks as well as a spacewalking astronaut.
Honorable mention MiseryXchord. Yes we like it because of the cat.
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Week 2: Eagle Nebula Space Desks

Week 2 winner of the Eagle Nebula Space Desk was ericlott. We love a good control panel.
Honorable mention mookatron. So much good geekery.
Honorable mention ericrightnow. We encourage the use of props

The first "captive carry" and flight of VSS Enterprise or SpaceShip II over Mojave, California Monday March 22,2010. The center mounted spaceship is attached to the "mothership" WhiteKnight II for a series of flight tests prior to its first drop test later in the year.

Week 1: Black Eye Galaxy Space Desks

Our first winner for the Black Eye Galaxy Space Desk was chicosantos. Another guy using a cute kid to win

The first "captive carry" and flight of VSS Enterprise or SpaceShip II over Mojave, California Monday March 22,2010. The center mounted spaceship is attached to the "mothership" WhiteKnight II for a series of flight tests prior to its first drop test later in the year.

Honorable mention kellyheather has a beautiful view from her Space Desk.
Flying ove the Mojave Desert

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