The new image of the star cluster, formally named NGC 2264, has been rotated 160 degrees to show the shape of a Christmas tree with the glow of ornament-like lights that are actually the emission ...

This month, space feels a bit more festive. That could be because of a new composite image of the Christmas Tree Cluster that shows star formation in a merry way, complete with green pine needles ...

An animated version of the composite image shows blinking lights ... MACS0416 has been dubbed the “Christmas Tree Galaxy Cluster” because “it’s so colorful and because of these flickering ...

Space is wishing Earth a Merry Christmas from 2,500 ... boughs and needles of an evergreen tree, with glowing lights of blue and white - stars within the cluster - scattered across it," NASA ...

The announcement itself came alongside a handful of images of the Christmas Tree cluster, one of which shows a particularly magnified background galaxy, with a star nicknamed "Mothra," that ...

NASA just released new images of a nearby star cluster that resembles a wreath and another that looks like a Christmas tree. The wreath-like cluster is actually named "NGC 602" and it lies on the ...

The image below shows the cluster that has been rotated about ... In this composite image, the cluster’s resemblance to a Christmas tree has been enhanced through image rotation and color ...

The orange, yellow, green and blue ring-like outline of the "cosmic wreath" came from the Webb telescope, while the red X-rays from Chandra show ... the "Christmas tree cluster" is located about ...

Optical data of the Christmas Tree Cluster was also taken from the National Science Foundation’s WIYN 0.9-meter telescope on Kitt Peak, and that data shows the gas in the nebula in a beautiful ...