Swirling beauty of the Milky Way galaxy's heart is captured in new telescope picture

A scope successful Chile has revealed the swirling splendor of star-forming gases astatine the bosom of our Milky Way galaxy

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A scope successful Chile has revealed successful unprecedented item the swirling splendor of star-forming gases astatine the bosom of our Milky Way galaxy.

The representation released Wednesday by the European Southern Observatory zeros successful connected a portion of acold cosmic gases much than 650 light-years across. A light-year is astir 6 trillion miles (9.7 trillion kilometers).

The clouds of state and particulate situation the supermassive achromatic spread astatine the galactic dormant center.

It’s the largest representation ever taken by the ALMA antenna web successful the Atacama Desert, 1 of the driest places connected Earth.

By studying however stars are calved successful this alleged Central Molecular Zone, astronomers tin amended recognize however galaxies evolved, said survey person Steve Longmore of Liverpool John Moores University.

“It’s a spot of extremes, invisible to our eyes, but present revealed successful bonzer detail,” the European Southern Observatory's Ashley Barnes, who is portion of the probe team, said successful a statement.

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