Der „Weihnachtsbaumhaufen“ oder NGC 2264, mit blinkenden Chandra-Röntgendaten.

**Link to animation in this post**

[**https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2024/ngc602/**](https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2024/ngc602/)

**Christmas Tree Cluster (NGC 2264) with Blinking X-rays**
(Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: Clow, M.; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare and K. Arcand; Video: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart)

The “Christmas tree cluster,” or NGC 2264, shows a cluster of young stars between one and five million years old. (For comparison, the Sun is a middle-aged star about 5 billion years old — about 1,000 times older.) The video of NGC 2264, which is much closer than NGC 602 at a distance of about 2,500 light-years from Earth, shows optical data captured by astrophotographer Michael Clow from his telescope in Arizona in November 2024, with the Chandra X-ray data blinking on and off.

Chandra data (red, green, and blue) has been combined with optical data (green and white)

All I can see is the Rozan Shō Ryū Ha of Dragon no Shiryū from Saint Seiya.