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2018 Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar (25 photos)

It’s that time of year again, time for one of my favorite holiday traditions:  the 11th annual Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar. Every day until Tuesday, December 25, this page will present one new incredible image of our universe from NASA’s Hubble telescope. Be sure to bookmark this calendar and come back every day until the 25th, or follow on Twitter (@TheAtlPhoto), Facebook, or Tumblr for daily updates. I hope you enjoy these amazing and awe-inspiring images and the efforts of the science teams who have brought them to Earth. As I do every year, I want to say again how fortunate I feel to have been able to share photo stories with you all year, and how much fun I have putting this calendar together  every December. Wishing you all a merry Christmas, happy holidays, and peace on Earth.

A Colossal and Colorful Lagoon. To celebrate its 28th anniversary in space the Hubble Space Telescope made this spectacular image of glowing clouds of interstellar gas in the Lagoon Nebula, with observations taken between February 12 and 18, 2018. The whole nebula, about 4,000 light-years away, is an incredible 55 light-years across and 20 light-years tall. This image shows only a small part of this turbulent star-formation region, about four light-years across. ( NASA, ESA, STScI)
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/12/2018-hubble-space-telescope-advent-calendar/577129/