Astronomers know these blobs of stars as globular clusters, and they've been trying to decipher exactly how these stellar neighborhoods come into existence and evolve through time. Now ...

A new image of NGC 2264, also known as the Christmas Tree Cluster, has been released by NASA, and it’s absolutely stunning. The folks behind processing the image even painted the gas and dust ...

NGC 2264 is a cluster of young stars that has been colored ... That’s because there is a lot of interstellar dust here. It’s possible to see around 80 stars in NGC 2264 in binoculars—all ...

The X-ray data from Chandra reveal the young stars within the cluster in red, while the infrared data from Webb show clouds of dust in orange, yellow, green, and blue.