Stars Gather in ‘Downtown’ Milky Way:
The region around the center of our Milky Way galaxy
glows colorfully in this new version of an image taken
by the Spitzer Space Telescope. The image is displayed
(left picture) on a quarter-of-a-billion-pixel, high-definition 23-foot-wide (7-meter) LCD science visualization
screen at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett
Field, Calif.
Images: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech
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