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Credit & Copyright: Stephane Guisard
Explanation:
Billions of stars light up the direction toward the
center of our Galaxy.
The vast majority of these stars are themselves
billions of years old, rivaling their home
Milky Way Galaxy
in age.
Together with interstellar dust,
these
old stars combine to create this
yellowish starscape.
Although the
opaque dust obscures the
true Galactic center in
visible light, there is a low density hole in the
dust on the right of the image.
The region, named
Baade's
Window for the German
astronomer who studied it, is
used to inspect
distant stars and to determine the
internal geometry of the Milky Way.
Baade's
Window
lies toward the constellation of the Archer (Sagittarius).
APOD presents: Astronomy Pictures of the Year for 2007
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Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: Baade's Window - Galactic Center
Publications with words: Baade's Window - Galactic Center
See also:
- APOD: 2024 April 1 Á Swirling Magnetic Field around Our Galaxys Central Black Hole
- Milky Way Rising
- APOD: 2023 April 3 Á The Galactic Center Radio Arc
- The Galactic Center in Radio from MeerKAT
- Road to the Galactic Center
- The Galactic Center in Stars, Gas, and Magnetism
- The Galactic Center in Infrared