ann2105 — Announcement

Announcement of the ESA/Hubble GIPHY Account

ESA/Hubble now has a GIPHY account, complete with looping videos of your favourite Hubble Space Telescope images, videos, and animations.

7 April 2021

ESA/Hubble now has a GIPHY account, complete with looping videos of your favourite Hubble Space Telescope images, videos, and animations.

Each year in the month of April, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope celebrates its anniversary. ESA/Hubble uses this opportunity to develop special initiatives to engage and involve the public in this annual milestone. On 24 April 2021 Hubble will be celebrating its 31st birthday.

The latest project developed by the ESA/Hubble outreach team is the ESA/Hubble GIPHY Account. GIPHY is an online database and search engine that allows users to search for and share short looping videos with no sound, that resemble animated GIF files. Each of the looping videos on the ESA/Hubble GIPHY page points to the original accompanying press release. This collection was developed to be a fun and interactive resource for the general public. Each of the short looping videos can be shared on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr, Reddit, text message, email, and more. Learn more about sharing these GIPHY files here.

This GIPHY account will continue to be regularly developed and expanded in the future to include new files. Please contact us if you have a suggestion for a video or animation from the ESA/Hubble website that you’d like to see included in this GIPHY collection.

Users can enter @esahubble everywhere GIPHY powers GIF search to find a GIF from the ESA/Hubble channel and/or by searching #Hubble.

Check out all of the ESA/Hubble 31st Anniversary initiatives that have been and will be announced on this page.

Links

• ESA/Hubble GIPHY page
• Hubble’s 31st Anniversary webpage
• Hubble’s 30th Anniversary activities in 2020

Contacts

Bethany Downer
ESA/Hubble Chief Communications Officer
Email: bethany.downer@esahubble.org