Science
Here’s the most complete picture of the Milky Way’s center ever created – Livescience.com
Made from nearly 400 separate observations, the new image reveals strange structures never seen before.
Gaze up at the Sagittarius constellation, and you are looking at the center of the Milky Way
galaxy. It may not look like much to the naked eye (especially if a bunch of space junk
is blocking your view), but to the world’s sharpest X-ray
and radio
telescopes, the archer hides a chaotic collage of black holes
, exploding stars, magnetic fields and inexplicable bubbles of gas.
Now, using data from two such telescopes NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa…
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