Sunday, 28 February 2010

An Infrared View of the Galaxy [PIC]

This sweeping panorama is the sharpest infrared picture ever made of the Galactic core.

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.

Source:
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/421530main_GalacticCore_090105_HI_full.jpg

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