Saturday, January 17, 2009

NASA - Hubble Views Galactic Core in Unprecedented New Detail

NASA - Hubble Views Galactic Core in Unprecedented New Detail: "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."

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