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Ptah

(33,032 posts) Sun Jul 29, 2018, 07:56 PM Jul 2018

Journey to the Center of the Galaxy APOD 2018 July 29

The featured video is actually a digital zoom into the Milky Way's center which starts by utilizing visible light images from the Digitized Sky Survey. As the movie proceeds, the light shown shifts to dust-penetrating infrared and highlights gas clouds that were recently discovered in 2013 to be falling toward central black hole.

Astronomy Picture of the Day

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180729.html