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The War and Peace Nebula is cosmetically snowing of cloud made of cosmic gas and dust. This nebula is also known as NGC 6357. It is located about 5,500 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Scorpius.

Scientists are calling the NGC 6357 as the winter wonderland in the mid-constellation Scorpius. The cosmic vista where radiation from young hot stars is illuminating the cooler gases in the cloud that bound them. This winter wonderland nebula is surrounded by a frosty-like hue and looks a lot like dive on one side and a skull on the other.

The spectacular winter wonderland image was made from 2004 to 2016 by two of NASA's space telescopes which revealed that the nebula is actually a cluster made of clusters of stars. It contained at least three clusters of young stars. These clusters were generally hot, massive and luminous stars which they diffuse X-ray emission from hot gases.

Aside from being the War and Peace Nebula, the NGC 6357 is also known as the Lobster Nebula. It contains many protostars sheltered by dark disks of gas and wrapped in young stars expanding in gases. This nebula is making more massive stars on record.

One of its clusters is Pismis 24-1, which has 300 solar masses and has multiple systems of at least three stars. Pismis 24-1 also shines in the molecular cloud that depicted like winter lights.

It illuminates like a winter wonderland that bubbles the powerful radiation and material blowing on the surfaces of massive stars. NGC 6357 strips hydrogen atoms in the surrounding gas of the winter wonderland nebula.

The wintry image was a combination of data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the ROSAT telescope. The Chandra X-ray Observatory is the world's most powerful x-ray telescope. Each image collected was able to create a fantastic scene of a wonderland.