Christmas Tree Shines in Deep Space in Stunning NASA Image
This cosmic apparition is some 2,500 light-years from Earth
A cosmic scene has appeared right in time for the holiday season.
On Tuesday, NASA's released a new image of a cluster of young stars that looks uncannily like a Christmas tree.
Known as NCG2264, the image shows the cluster in X-ray, optical and infrared light — with those the green leaves actually corresponding to interstellar gas. Those shiny bright lists? They're actually young stars.
NGC 2264 is about 2,500 light-years from Earth, home to stars aged between 1 to 5 million years that range in mass from a fraction of our sun to seven times its mass.
Stars inside the cluster experience X-ray flares that can be observed by Chandra. Some are similar to the flares our own star occasionally belches out, but the NGC 2264 stars' flares are more powerful.
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