An Infrared View of the Galaxy Size:8" x 10" True Lovers of the Muse

True Lovers of the Muse

Photographed by Harris & Ewing on a 4x5 glass plate negative

Three Boy Scouts Training Demonstration

A series of uncommon spiral patterns in the large galaxy is a tell-tale sign of interaction

US Office of War Information in 1944 on 4x5 color transparency film

An Infrared View of the Galaxy Size:8" x 10" True Lovers of the MuseThis 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. This sweeping panorama is the sharpest infrared picture ever made of the Galactic core and offers a laboratory for how massive stars form and influence their environment in the often violent nuclear regions of other galaxies. This