Hubble Holiday cards are back!
This is a really good idea: using gorgeous Hubble images to make cards for the season. The site has instructions on how to print them, and of course links to the images as well.
I have to say, I think my favorite is this one:
The picture is from the Galactic center in Sagittarius, where stars are plentiful. I recognized it immediately (I’m a dork), but the idea of using it for ornaments was pretty clever and very funny.
The most ironic one is this one:
I hate to break it to my friends at Hubble, but Mars is the god of war. Maybe a hawk would have been a better choice for the silhouette.
Or maybe it’s all part of the subtle War on Christmas: all the cards say "holiday" and "season", and not Christmas. Maybe they should have a Hubble picture of the Star of Bethlehem?
December 10th, 2007 at 9:48 am
That last picture very obviously proves there is no space and the sky is a solid dome above us. You can’t get that size of silhouette on Mars if it’s really far away![/sarcasm]
December 10th, 2007 at 9:53 am
Maybe it is War and Peace.
December 10th, 2007 at 10:24 am
Rather than a “war on Christmas” (worth fighting, I’d say!), the cards probably say holiday/season because the state is not allowed to endorse religion.
December 10th, 2007 at 10:32 am
I really don’t have a problem with “Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Pleasant Solstice Greetings”, or whatever people want to say. I just wish people would get over their collective hang-ups and enjoy the season, however they choose to celebrate it, religious or secular.
December 10th, 2007 at 10:33 am
That’s not the worst of it. Did you see the one labeled hc002? Way to keep that “Mars as big as the full Moon” rumor going!
December 10th, 2007 at 11:37 am
I wish I’d known about this before spending all day Sunday writing out my Christmas cards!
Oh, well, I’ll have to remember it for next year!
December 11th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
How charming… the dove took a dump on Mars!
December 11th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
Actually, having the dove superimposed on Mars is quite apt. Doves, apparently, are pretty cranky, bitey critters when they’re threatened.
December 12th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
Which Star of Bethlehem? The near conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in 7BC or the near conjunction of Mercury, Mars, and Jupiter in 2BC?