NASA researchers used data from two telescopes, including data from NASA’s own Chandra X-ray Observatory and the National Science Foundation’s Wisconsin-Indiana-Yale-NOAO (WIYN) Observatory, to find Edited a rendering showing a star cluster in a green pine tree. They also used infrared data from the Two Micron All Sky Survey, an infrared astronomical survey of the sky, to animate the stars in the cluster as shimmering bright blue and white dots. This image has been rotated 160 degrees from its original north point to better stand as a Christmas tree.
This cosmic cloud of dust and gas is located about 2,500 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros, a faint constellation at the celestial equator. According to NASA research. Many of the stars in the NGC 2264 layer are smaller or larger than the Sun, with some having less than a tenth of the Sun’s mass.
The formation was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel in the 1780s and spans approximately 7 light years. The surrounding region is also a hotbed for the birth of new stars, and the nebula has been gradually eroded over millions of years, according to NASA.
There are countless nebulae on Earth that resemble objects and animals, such as jellyfish, owls, and even elephant trunks. The NGC 6302 layer found in the constellation Scorpio is butterfly nebula Because of the gas clouds flapping like wings.
Scientists often study nebulae and the magnetic fields produced by particles inside stars to analyze their behavior, particularly what happens when a star reaches the end of its life and evolves into a nebula.
Magnetic fields generated by NASA’s Chandra X-ray telescope also produce similar image renderings of a supergiant star collapsing into a neutron star, including an eerie purple-and-white hand emerging from the nebula 16,000 light-years from Earth. He says it’s helpful. NASA news release.