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- Code Number:
- UGND01_018
- Title:
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Center of the Milky Way Aglow With Dust
- Our Milky Way is a dusty place. So dusty, in fact, that we cannot see the center of the galaxy in visible light. But when NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope set its infrared eyes on the galactic center, it captured this spectacular view.
Taken with just one of Spitzer's cameras (at a wavelength of 8 microns), the photo highlights the region's exceptionally bright and dusty clouds that are lit up by young massive stars and showing the galactic center that stretches across a distance of 760 light-years.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
- Keywords:
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Galaxies-Nebulas, Deep Space, Outer Space, Universe, Cosmos, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Science, Celestial, Cosmic, Astronomical
- Image by:
- NASA
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- Code Number:
- UGND01_018
- Title:
-
Center of the Milky Way Aglow With Dust
- Our Milky Way is a dusty place. So dusty, in fact, that we cannot see the center of the galaxy in visible light. But when NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope set its infrared eyes on the galactic center, it captured this spectacular view.
Taken with just one of Spitzer's cameras (at a wavelength of 8 microns), the photo highlights the region's exceptionally bright and dusty clouds that are lit up by young massive stars and showing the galactic center that stretches across a distance of 760 light-years.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
- Keywords:
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Galaxies-Nebulas, Deep Space, Outer Space, Universe, Cosmos, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Science, Celestial, Cosmic, Astronomical
- Image by:
- NASA
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