2 posts tagged ‘the milky way’

• The Best Space Images of 2023

  Gizmodo, Dec 12, 2023

  Space is an inky black yonder... but for the countless light sources that pepper the billions of light-years that human instruments can see. Thanks to ground-based telescopes and observatories parked millions of miles from Earth, 2023 has been a terrific year for space imagery. Astronomers captured fascinating new… Read more...

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• The Heart of the Milky Way Glows With Unprecedented Detail in New Webb Image

  Gizmodo, Nov 21, 2023

  The center of our galaxy is a menagerie of exotic objects; a supermassive black hole, clouds of hot gas, and giant stars that can help inform the origin story of much of the universe. Using the Webb telescope, scientists got to see this chaotic region of the Milky Way in a different light, revealing new features and… Read more...

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