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Topic: winter solstice

Prop stylist: Alya Hameedi. Food stylist: Anna Billingkog. (MJ Kroeger / Food52)

An ancient winter solstice celebration

Louisa Shafia - Food52
mage of the Kinman Dwarf galaxy, also known as PHL 293B, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 in 2011, before the disappearance of the massive star. Located some 75 million light-years away, the galaxy is too far away for astronomers to clearly resolve its individual stars, but in observations done between 2001 and 2011, they detected the signatures of the massive star. These signatures were not present in more recent data. (NASA/ESA/Hubble/J. Andrews/University of Arizona))

The Star of Bethlehem's comeback?

Eric M. Vanden Eykel - The Conversation
Star of Bethlehem illustration (Getty Images)

A Star of Bethlehem redux?

Nicole Karlis
(Reuters/Doug Murray)

"The great conjunction" of 2020

William Teets - The Conversation
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The nearly-full moon is seen among Christmas lights at a holiday display Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015, in Lenexa, Kan. When the moon turns full, at 5:11am cst., it will be the first full moon to fall on Christmas day since 1977. Named the Long Night Moon because it's the first full moon to follow the winter solstice, it's also known as the Cold Moon. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) (AP)

What winter solstice rituals can tell us

Rosalyn R. LaPier - The Conversation
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