Even thousands of light-years away from Earth, there’s a cluster of stars getting into the Christmas spirit. Images released by NASA this week show a grouping of stars from the NGC 2264 cluster illuminated in bright green, blue and white lights across its Milky Way celestial skies.

NASA releases ‘Christmas Tree’ star images in time for the holidays

Stars from the NGC 2264 cluster have a triangle-shaped base and stems extending out, resembling the popular spruce that’s become a holiday staple.

paywall wtf.

Take the paywall down, you greedy knobgoblins.

Stop. So dumb.

Aren't all those space photos in false color, since most are in a spectrum outside of visible light?