Largest ever image obtained by specialist telescope in Chile represents scientific and aesthetic breakthrough ...

A telescope in Chile has revealed the swirling splendor of star-forming gases at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy.

In the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, there is beauty in chaos. There dense clouds of dust and spindly filaments of cold molecular gas, the basic matter from which stars form, encircle the galaxy’s ...

Astronomers have captured the largest and most detailed image of the Milky Way’s core to date, revealing a chaotic web of cosmic filaments at our galaxy's center.

"It's a place of extremes, invisible to our eyes, but now revealed in extraordinary detail," Ashley Barnes, an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Germany who is part of the team ...

Astronomers captured this stunning image of the Milky Way’s center, revealing a web of gas, dust and stars in extraordinary detail ...

The center of the Milky Way is an extreme place. In addition to housing our galaxy's supermassive black hole, it also contains a 700-light-year-wide region of dense gas called the Central Molecular ...

Astronomers have captured the most detailed view ever of the center of our Milky Way galaxy, revealing a tangled web of cold ...

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