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Three Amigos⁣ ⁣ NASAHubble, NASAChandraXray, and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope captured the heart of our Milky Way galaxy using two different spectrums of light, infrared and X-ray. The telescopes peered through the dust and debris that obscure the core of our galaxy – which is visible as the bright white region to the right and just below the center of the image.⁣ ⁣ The Hubble telescope – which typically captures the cosmos in visible light – unveils the stellar winds and radiation that our heated by massive stars that make up the galactic center region in infrared, seen here in yellow and gold. ⁣ ⁣ Spitzer also viewed our galaxy in infrared in a more detailed view and showed the turbulent core of the galaxy, which consists of hundreds of thousands of stars and stellar nurseries – areas that create the next generation of stars. Spitzer's view is seen in red and orange.⁣ ⁣ Our Chandra X-ray Observatory shows the galactic core in pink and blue, where pink represents lower energy X-rays...

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