Deep-sky object
Christmas Tree Cluster
Christmas Tree Cluster is a young open cluster in an emission nebula 2 350 light-years away, in Monoceros, about 27 light-years across.
A young cluster shaped like an upside-down Christmas tree, with the Cone Nebula at its tip; new stars are still forming in its dust.
See it live
It is on the live 3D map, where it really is.
Key facts
- Type
- young open cluster in an emission nebula
- Constellation
- Monoceros
- Distance
- 2 350 light-years
- Size
- about 27.0 light-years across
- Brightness from Earth
- magnitude 4.1
- Catalogue
- NGC 2264
See it from here
Bright enough to see with your own eyes from a dark place.
How the map draws it
Drawn as a soft glow in the manner of its kind at its measured distance, as wide as it measures; the pattern in it is illustrative and its true shape is not drawn — the kind of thing, not this exact one.