Hubble Views Galactic Core in Unprecedented New Detail
Monday, January 5, 2009 - 13:14
in Astronomy & Space
This composite color infrared image of the center of our Milky Way galaxy reveals a new population of massive stars and new details in complex structures in the hot ionized gas swirling around the central 300 light-years. This sweeping Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescope panorama is the sharpest infrared picture ever made of the Galactic core.