Cosmic swan > partridge in a pear tree Our gift to you this holiday season is this image of Messier 17 (also known as the Omega Nebula or Swan Nebula) snapped by NASAHubble. Our Hubble Space Telescope turned 35 this year, marking over three decades of stellar gifts like this. That's more than a thousand times longer than the 12 days of Christmas… but who’s counting? Image description: A colorful, painterly image of the gas and stars of Messier 17. The scene is split in two diagonally across the middle by different types of dust—a bright turquoise on the top-left half, and billows of ochre cascading down the bottom right half. Red stars are speckled about the scene. Credit: ESA, NASA, and J. Hester (Arizona State University) #NASA #Hubble #Nebula #Swan #TwelveDaysOfChristmas