Stunning! Located at the edge of an enormous, gaseous cavity in the star cluster NGC 3324, the Cosmic Cliffs have become a focal point for astronomers, renowned as a cradle of star formation. | Jock Williams Meteorologist

STARFORGE Simulation • The Anvil of Creation 1.3.2022 • (Best viewed on larger screen, view till end) This movie is the first numerical simulation of star formation in a massive (20,000 solar mass) giant molecular cloud with individual star formation and a comprehensive treatment of feedback, from protostellar jets, radiation in 5 frequency bands, stellar winds, and core-collapse supernovae. This makes it the first simulation with the full STARFORGE physics package. This particular cloud has bee

• Christmas Tree Cluster with Blinking X-rays • 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 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. (Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: Clow, M.; Image P