Amazing imagery of star cluster NGC 2264, nicknamed the Christmas Tree Cluster. Captured by the WIYN 0.9-meter telescope on Kitt Peak, Two Micron All Sky Survey and Chandra X-ray Observatory.
Credit: Space.com | imagery: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: T.A. Rector (NRAO/AUI/NSF and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA) and B.A. Wolpa (NOIRLab/NSF/AURA); Infrared: NASA/NSF/IPAC/CalTech/Univ. of Massachusetts; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare & J.Major | edited by Steve Spaleta
Music: Christmas Wonders by Howard Harper-Barnes / courtesy of Epidemic Sound
