Wednesday, January 1, 2025

The 8th Day of Christmas





"This release features a composite image of a cluster of young stars looking decidedly like a cosmic Christmas tree! The cluster, known as NGC 2264, is in our Milky Way Galaxy, about 2,500 light-years from Earth. Some of the stars in the cluster are relatively small, and some are relatively large, ranging from one tenth to seven times the mass of our Sun."



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Happy New Year!



2 comments:

  1. Beautiful star cluster! Wish I were there. The links are all quite interesting, but the first one does not work correctly :O.

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    1. Link fixed! Thanks for bringing it to my attention! :-)

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