Let’s go on a journey to the center of our galaxy 🌌
Deep in the heart of our Milky Way Galaxy lie more than half a million stars. These stars are part of a massive nuclear star cluster clumped around a central supermassive black hole about 4 million times the mass of our Sun.
Hubble gives us a sharp view in infrared, piercing through the dust that obscures the star cluster. Scientists translated the infrared light into colors our eyes can see, and mapped the movement of the stars over four years.
The result is this #hubbleclassic, stitching a 50-light-year span of stars together from 27,000 light-years away!
Image credit: NASA, ESA, and Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA, Acknowledgment: T. Do, A.Ghez (UCLA), V. Bajaj (STScI)
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