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NASA Image Shows the Spectacular Beauty of the Milky Way’s ‘Downtown’ – Good News Network
A newly released NASA image of the Milky Way shows what is being called the ‘downtown’ of the beautiful spiral galaxy we live in.
NASA/CXC/UMass/Q.D. Wang
A spectacular new image has been released by NASA showing the ‘downtown’ of the spiral galaxy we live in.
The photography is a composite made up of 370 observations that were taken at the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory over the past couple of decades. It shows billions of stars and a seemingly endless number of black holes 26,000 light years from Earth, at the center of the Milky Way.
Much of the work that went into making this image was undertaken by Daniel Wang. An …
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