# @nasa on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CnAi34epyc4
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/2932125-nasa-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/6df85b2aa5.jpg
- **Posted:** 2023-01-04T21:34:34.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

Three Amigos⁣
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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.⁣
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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. ⁣
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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.⁣
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Our Chandra X-ray Observatory shows the galactic core in pink and blue, where pink represents lower energy X-rays, and blue represents higher energy. A supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy diffuses X-ray light in the bottom right of the image.⁣
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Image description: Swirling colors of red, orange, yellow, gold, pink, and blue dominate this image. At the middle-bottom-right of the photo, the core of our galaxy shines bright. Interstellar dust and radiation combine to create a brilliant tapestry backed by the blackness of space.⁣
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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/CXC/STScI⁣
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#MilkyWay #Stars #Core #Galaxy #NASA #Space #Telescope

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