2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar
2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar
An 18th annual advent calendar presenting daily remarkable images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope, showcasing distant galaxies, nebulae, and star clusters. Each day until December 25, a new image of our universe is revealed, providing a spectacular journey through cosmic wonders. The article features detailed descriptions of images like the 'Cosmic Butterfly' and the 'Einstein Ring', highlighting the ongoing exploration of space.
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an image advent calendar is a wonderous concept. though i cheated and merely bookmarked it so i could speedrun it.
looking at these images makes me even more excited for the Roman telescope.
there is so much wonder and adventure in every image.
it is funny to read the captions and the often repeated advice that many galaxies appearing in the image are just photo bombing what is actually being captured.
this series made me wonder what observers in other galaxies would see when they pointed their space telescopes at us.
the answer is quite humbling. when you look into space you are seeing the past (due to light travel).
thus, most observers would see nothing at all, many would see an early version of our universe that is still forming. our closest neighbors would see a variety of depictions of our galaxy at different times in the past and hopefully signs of life!
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