For me, the day the Christmas tree goes up signals the true start to the festive season — a bigger day, somehow, than December 25th itself. There's something so magical about rallying together to hang ...

This Christmas, astronomers are highlighting a spectacular region of space that looks remarkably like a glowing holiday tree. Known as NGC 2264, this distant star-forming region sits about 2,700 light ...

NASA said that a telescope captured an image of NGC 2264, which is a cluster of young stars aged between one and five million years old. NGC 2264 — also known as the “Christmas Tree Cluster” since it ...

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NGC 2264 is a cluster of young stars that has been colored and rotated to emphasize its nickname of the “Christmas Tree Cluster”. Astronomers have released new “Christmas Tree Cluster” images using ...