It's a very appropriately themed topic of wonderment on Looking Up this week... Merry Christmas everyone, and in keeping with the holiday spirit let’s talk about the Christmas tree you can find in the ...

There is a Christmas tree in space. The nebula NGC2261, discovered about 200 years ago, has a diameter of about 1 light-year (a light-year is the distance light travels in one year, approximately 9.46 ...

Arrayed with a simple triangular outline above S Monocerotis, the stars of NGC 2264 are popularly known as the Christmas Tree star cluster. Image Credit & Copyright ...

NASA's new rendering of the Christmas Tree NebulaX-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: T.A. Rector (NRAO/AUI/NSF and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA) and B.A. Wolpa (NOIRLab/NSF/AURA ...

The Milky Way is delivering some holiday cheer in a new image and video NASA published Tuesday. Young stars clustered together some 2,500 light years from Earth are creating a Christmas tree in space.

The Eagle Nebula (M16) is a grand star-forming area. Its pillars of dust and gas are nurseries for new stars, and thus it is a center of celestial activity. The Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) is an enormous ...

"Had the ancients known of such a wonder could they have called it by any lesser name than 'The Thrown of God'? Here, as in the Great Orion Nebula, even the modern observer is touched by the strange ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory helped to build a particularly festive image of the gas, dust, and young stars of NGC 2264, also known as the "Christmas Tree Cluster." What it is: The young star ...

TUCSON, Ariz. – Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered a perfectly decorated Christmas tree 2,500 light years from earth. Scientists at the University of Arizona's Steward ...

Christmas magic has gone beyond the bounds of planet Earth! Astronomers in the UAE spent 35 hours, over the span of a month, to capture a unique image with multiple celestial objects, one of them ...