Your living room isn't the only place housing a large green Christmas tree with sparkling lights this year. NASA has found a spot in space with its own glowing cosmic tree for the holiday season.

is also called the “Christmas Tree Cluster,” where a group of young stars surrounded by the gaseous cloud of a nebula call to mind a cosmic evergreen decorated with twinkling lights.

James Webb has captured a spectacular view of what astronomers are calling the 'Christmas Tree Galaxy Cluster' — a colourful array of cosmic entities with 14 flickering 'lights' at their heart.

The cosmic tree sits within NGC 2264, located in the obscure constellation of Monoceros, the Unicorn, not far from the more familiar figure of Orion, the Hunter. It is a massive multiple-star ...

The cosmic tree is said to link the nine realms according to Norse mythology. Our knowledge of the circumstances in which life can exist and its ability to adapt to harsh conditions has been ...

NGC 2264 — also known as the “Christmas Tree Cluster” since it looks like a cosmic tree with strings of glowing lights — can be found in the Milk Way, about 2,500 light-years from Earth.

One way to identify “missing” major quakes is to work out when trees were killed by seismic activity—directly by the shaking itself or indirectly by landslides, tsunamis or other quake ...

The cluster of young stars is known as the “Christmas Tree Cluster” and you can see why. It looks exactly like a cosmic Christmas Tree. By young, we’re talking between one and five million ...