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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