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Monday, October 07, 2019

Milky Way center


A color chart superimposed on an artistic representation of the galaxy, showing the distribution of 150 million stars in the Milky Way, based on data from the Gaia space telescope. The location of our own Sun is highlighted in yellow, near the bottom-center of the image. Image credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, A. Khalatyan (AIP) & StarHorse Team; mapa artístic de la Galaxia: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC/Caltech)
Seen for the first time — the bar at the center of the galaxy.

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