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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

On Christmas Eve, the Roscosmos state Corporation published a photo of the Christmas Tree nebula in the constellation of the Unicorn. The corresponding footage appeared on the Telegram channel of the ...

What do a cone, fox fur, and a Christmas tree have in common? The answer is that they can all be found in the constellation Unicorn (Monoceros). This area, where cosmic gas and dust are intricately ...

"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 ...