Two of the biggest space telescopes have combined forces to create a HUGE panorama of the center of the Milky Way galaxy. This sweeping, composite color panorama is the sharpest infrared picture ever made of the Galactic core.
Galactic center in unprecedented detail.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and Q.D. Wang (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Revealed in the image are a new population of massive stars and new details of complex structures in the hot gas and dust swirling around, created by solar winds and supernova explosions. The image shows an area about 300 light-years across.(read more)
Galactic center in unprecedented detail.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and Q.D. Wang (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
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