NASA's "three amigos" have captured the Milky Way's core

Technology
Jan 06 2023 03:27 PM
ANIKET DIXIT

NASA's "three amigos" have captured the Milky Way's core

USA: A fascinating picture of the center of our Milky Way galaxy has been made public by NASA. The bright region at right, which is the galaxy's core, is shrouded in cosmic dust and debris but brimming with stars.

The "Three Amigos", a group of the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and the Spitzer Space Telescope, accomplished this feat.

Recent developments in space exploration have allowed us to see and probe the universe like never before. A recent photograph provides an amazing glimpse into the complexity of our own Milky Way. The Spitzer telescope studied the most distant galaxies during its 16 years of operation, and it also discovered a giant Saturn ring.

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Infrared and X-ray light of two different wavelengths were used to image the galaxy's core.

NASA posted an official message on Instagram with the caption, "Red, orange, yellow, gold, pink and blue colors dominate this image." The space agency continued, "Space dust and radiation combine to form a spectacular tapestry backed by the blackness of space."

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Hubble, which operates in the visible spectrum, observed stellar winds and radiation from nearby giant stars. The center of the galaxy is occupied by stars, which are depicted as yellow and golden tones in the image.

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Infrared wavelengths were used by the Spitzer telescope to image the same region. Its data revealed more information about the "turbulent core" of the Milky Way.

The telescope discovered countless stars and a "stellar nursery," or region where stars are born, as seen in red and orange.
The mission of the space telescope, which began in August 2003 and ended in January 2020.

The galactic core is shown by the Chandra X-ray Observatory in pink and blue, where pink represents low-energy X-rays and blue represents high-energy ones. At the bottom right of the image, a supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy can be seen emitting X-rays.