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October 27, 2020 11:00AM (EDT)

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This video zooms into a view of the center of our Milky Way galaxy, beginning with a photo that spans 71 degrees of the sky and ending on a new photo obtained by the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) at the Cerro-Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. The new image covers 0.5 by 0.25 degrees (an area about twice as wide as the full Moon) and contains over 180,000 stars.

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CTIO, NSF's NOIRLab, AURA, Alyssa Pagan (STScI), Will Clarkson (University of Michigan–Dearborn), Carl Johnson (STScI), Michael Rich (UCLA)

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