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2019 Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar (25 photos)

Time once more for one of my favorite holiday traditions: the 12th annual Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar. Every day until Wednesday, December 25, this page will present one new incredible image of our universe from NASA’s Hubble telescope. Be sure to come back every day until the 25th, or follow on Twitter (@TheAtlPhoto) or Facebook 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. And once more, I want to say 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 Shell of Light. Spirals of dust swirl across trillions of kilometers of interstellar space as an expanding halo of light around a distant star, named V838 Monocerotis illuminates the giant cloud. The glow comes from the red supergiant star at the middle of the image, which gave off a flashbulb-like pulse of light, This image shows the progress the light-pulse had made after two years of traveling away from the star in all directions, imaged by Hubble on February 8, 2004. V838 Monocerotis is located about 20,000 light-years away from Earth in the direction of the constellation Monoceros, at the outer edge of our Milky Way galaxy. ( NASA, the Hubble Heritage Team, AURA / STScI, and ESA)
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2019/12/2019-hubble-space-telescope-advent-calendar/602827/