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Milky Way’s Center Will Be Revealed by NASA’s Webb Telescope

October 09, 2019Release ID: 2019-52 Missions: Webb

Galactic dust hides swarms of stars and black hole’s glowing disk
Hubble Probes the Archeology of Our Milky Way's Ancient Hub

January 11, 2018Release ID: 2018-01 Missions: Hubble

Swarms of young and older stars yield clues to our galaxy’s formation
NASA's Great Observatories Celebrate International Year of Astronomy

November 10, 2009Release ID: 2009-28 Missions: Hubble

A never-before-seen view of the turbulent heart of our Milky Way galaxy is being unveiled by NASA on Nov. 10. This event will commemorate the 400 years since Galileo first turned his telescope to the heavens in 1609....
Hubble Views Galactic Core in Unprecedented New Detail

January 05, 2009Release ID: 2009-02 Missions: Hubble

This composite color infrared image of the center of our Milky Way galaxy reveals a new population of massive stars and new details in complex structures in the hot ionized gas swirling around the central 300 light-years...