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Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar 2008

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the here-ya-go-bob dept.

krou writes "The Big Picture blog is running a Hubble Space Telescope imagery Advent Calendar, where for 25 days (it started on the 1st of December), a new photo will be revealed from the Hubble Space Telescope."

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  1. But why wait 25 days? by liraz · · Score: 5, Informative

    Showing one image a day for 25 days is a great way to generate repeat traffic for your blog and increase page views, especially if your blog is picked up by Slashdot!

    Or you could skip the middle man and go directly to the source and get as many beautiful HST images as you want... right now.

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    1. Re:But why wait 25 days? by dtml-try+MyNick · · Score: 2, Informative

      This is one blog that doesn't really need the attention. Boston.com is already pretty renown for it's excelent photographic series.

      The bigpicture section of the site is updated weekly with amazing shots of a specific subject and linked to by a large number of other websites. This post on /. is just one in many I have seen linking to them.

      In short, this is one site that should be bookmarked if you're into nice photographs.

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  2. Advent is not 25 days long every year... by Sopor42 · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm not even a Christian and it bothers me that Advent calendars are commonly 25 days long. Advent is NOT the days of December leading up to Christmas! It is the days from Advent Sunday (Wikipedia), which this years was 30 November, to Christmas. Which at one point in the history of this mostly harmless Earth was a celebration of the birth of Christ...

    1. Re:Advent is not 25 days long every year... by E++99 · · Score: 2, Informative

      The length of the "advent season", the season leading up to Christmas, varies depending on tradition. It begins on Advent Sunday (4 Sundays before Christmas) for Roman Catholics and Anglicans (and maybe others). However, advent calendars were introduced by German Lutherans, who had 24 days of Advent, beginning on December 1st. Adding a 25th day for Christmas itself is a modern innovation.