In celebration of the season, let’s take a look at a celestial Christmas Tree in two different edits (in which I switched the red and green channels). Which one looks better?
NGC 2264, also known as the “Christmas Tree Cluster,” shows the shape of a cosmic tree with the glow of stellar lights. NGC 2264 is, in fact, a cluster of young stars — with ages between about one and five million years old — in our Milky Way about 2,500 light-years away from Earth. The stars in NGC 2264 are both smaller and larger than the Sun, ranging from some with less than a tenth the mass of the Sun to others containing about seven solar masses.
I will take a break from posting this Sunday due to the holidays.
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