Alastor-king-of-the-void - Void Alastor

NGC 1566, Spanish Dancer

(Admin: I made these a while back. So here, have the two beings of the universe that keeps it going. Oh and look forward ro some stuff! I have ideas!)

•Red Galaxy• •Lockscreens• •Edits made by me :)•

Tarantula Nebula, Cosmic Web

Another day, another space painting...

Unveiling the Center of Our Milky Way Galaxy

We captured an extremely crisp infrared image of the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Spanning more than 600 light-years, this panorama reveals details within the dense swirls of gas and dust in high resolution, opening the door to future research into how massive stars are forming and what’s feeding the supermassive black hole at our galaxy’s core.

Among the features coming into focus are the jutting curves of the Arches Cluster containing the densest concentration of stars in our galaxy, as well as the Quintuplet Cluster with stars a million times brighter than our Sun. Our galaxy’s black hole takes shape with a glimpse of the fiery-looking ring of gas surrounding it.

The new view was made by the world’s largest airborne telescope, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA.

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