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Spacey Tree

14 December 2009 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA/JPL–Caltech/P.S. Teix­eira (Cen­ter for Astrophysics)

Whether you see a Christ­mas tree or snowflake, this neb­ula rep­re­sents win­ter. Trace the dim tri­an­gu­lar pat­tern of the tree in the wisps of green and yel­low. Or fol­low the pat­tern of a snowflake in the cen­ter group of stars in this Spitzer Space Tele­scope image of the Christ­mas Tree Neb­ula.

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