"'Tis the season... to gaze into the universe," the space agency wrote in an X post on Tuesday.
Around this time last year, NASA released an image of NGC 2264, another star cluster known for its resemblance to holiday greenery which was aptly named "Christmas tree cluster."
Data collected from both the Chandra X-ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope were combined to depict NGC 602, a star cluster located on the outskirts of a not-so-distant galaxy some 200,000 light years from Earth.
The orange, yellow, green and blue ring-like outline of the "cosmic wreath" came from the Webb telescope, while the red X-rays from Chandra show the young and massive stars illuminating the wreath from within.
The chemical composition of this heavenly body, unlike the sun and most of the Milky Way, are similar, if not the same, to stars discovered billions of years ago in a "much younger" universe, the space agency reported.
"Since antiquity, wreaths have symbolized the cycle of life, death, and rebirth," the space agency wrote in a news release. "It is fitting then that one of the best places for astronomers to learn more about the stellar lifecycle resembles a giant holiday wreath itself."
Officially called NGC 2264, the "Christmas tree cluster" is located about 2,500 lightyears Earth in our own Milky Way galaxy.
The grouping of stars, whose ages are between about one and five million years old, make them on the younger side, appearing to form the shape of a green-hued tree - complete with glowing stellar lights.
All of the stars that make up the "Christmas tree cluster" are both smaller and larger than the sun, with some having less than a tenth of its mass and others containing about seven solar masses.
Data collected by the Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical data captured by Michael Clow, an astrophotographer in Arizona were combined to create the festive image.
The resulting composite image is a dazzling display of stellar lights that - when enhanced with certain colors and shown at a certain rotation - resembles a sparkling Christmas tree.