Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae seriesA fantastic greetings card showing a colour image of the region known as NGC 2264 – an area of sky that includes the sparkling blue baubles of the Christmas Tree star cluster and the Cone Nebula.It was created from data taken through four different filters (B, V, R and H-alpha) with the Wide Field Imager at ESO's La Silla Observatory, 2400 m high in the Atacama Desert of Chile in the foothills of the Andes.The image shows a region of space about 30 light-years across.All items with this imageAll items in the Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae seriesImage code: xmastrclstESO/J. Emerson/VISTA www.eso.orgReproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.
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