Newborn stars, hidden behind thick dust, are revealed in this image of a section of the so-called Christmas Tree Cluster from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The newly revealed infant stars appear as pink and red specks toward the center and appear to have formed in regularly spaced intervals along linear structures in a configuration that resembles the spokes of a wheel or the pattern of a snowflake. Hence, astronomers have nicknamed this the "Snowflake Cluster." Learn more at nasa.gov/spitzer Happy #spacesaturday folks! 🌟 Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/P.S. Teixeira (Center for Astrophysics) #nasa #spitzer #stars #starstuff #space #universe #galaxy #christmastree #snowflake