Photo from open sources
This image was posted by NASA as a New Year or Christmas present (to whom is closer), and it was made using an infrared space telescope The Spitzer.
Photo, either jokingly or seriously, the journalists immediately called Christmas tree. And indeed, it depicts a starry a cluster that reminds us of an elegant Christmas beauty, if you admire her at night while lit Garlands. But the official name for this picture is “Snowflake”.
We’ll clarify that the scientists came up with such a name for a reason: the newborn stars of a distant Galaxy, and several hundreds of thousands of years, they say, and this “snowflake” will melt, as the stars that make it up disperse.
Here is such a space gift for the New Year! Not really fabulous, but moderately fantastic, since space was also remains great for us and obviously never solved secret …
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