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Spot the stellar snowflakes on the cosmic Christmas tree
About 2,500 light-years from Earth, stars are being born in a region of space known as the Christmas Tree Cluster. Seen in the infrared (just beyond the range of visible light) by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, these infant stars (less than 100,000 years old) appear as pink and red specks near the center of this photo, evenly-spaced in a spoke-like pattern that gives them the name of the Snowflake Cluster.
