Friday, October 8, 2010

NGC 2264: Christmas Tree cluster and the Clone nebula


NGC 2264 is an area of space which contains the Christmas Tree star cluster and the Cone nebula.

This image shows a region about 30 light years across. It was created from images taken through four different filters with the Wide Field Imager at La Silla.

(Image: ESO)

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