Astronomy Picture of the Day - Journey to the Center of the Galaxy

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-24 20:32:12 | Updated at 2024-11-24 23:14:05 3 hours ago

Astronomy Picture of the Day - Journey to the Center of the Galaxy
NASA ^ | 24 Nov, 2024 | Video Credit: ESO/MPE/Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org)/VISTA/J. Emerson/Digitized Sky Survey 2

Posted on 11/24/2024 12:11:27 PM PST by MtnClimber

Explanation: What lies at the center of our galaxy? In Jules Verne's science fiction classic, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, Professor Liedenbrock and his fellow explorers encounter many strange and exciting wonders. Astronomers already know of some of the bizarre objects that exist at our Galactic Center, including vast cosmic dust clouds, bright star clusters, swirling rings of gas, and even a supermassive black hole. Much of the Galactic Center is shielded from our view in visible light by the intervening dust and gas, but it can be explored using other forms of electromagnetic radiation. 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 the central black hole.

TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa

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1 posted on 11/24/2024 12:11:27 PM PST by MtnClimber

To: MtnClimber

Pinging the APOD list

🪐 🌟 🌌 🍔 Today's image is a video at the source link.

2 posted on 11/24/2024 12:11:44 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)

To: MtnClimber

16th-century Icelandic alchemist and cosmonaut, Arne Saknussemm got there first.

3 posted on 11/24/2024 12:13:56 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)

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4 posted on 11/24/2024 12:28:02 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])

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