Galactic Center from Hubble
by Barry Jones
Title
Galactic Center from Hubble
Artist
Barry Jones
Medium
Photograph - Public Domain Image
Description
Galactic Center from Hubble Space Telescope, This is a Nasa Image in the Public Domain. The image has undergone digital enhancement for presentation and display. Credit: NASA, Hubble Heritage Team
(Excerpt From NASA Site)
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 panorama is the sharpest infrared picture ever made of the Galactic core. It offers a nearby laboratory for how massive stars form and influence their environment in the often violent nuclear regions of other galaxies.
This view combines the sharp imaging of the Hubble Space Telescope's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) with color imagery from a previous Spitzer Space Telescope survey done with its Infrared Astronomy Camera (IRAC). The Galactic core is obscured in visible light by intervening dust clouds, but infrared light penetrates the dust.
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November 8th, 2014
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