A map of the sky assembled using data from the Gaia space telescope, with the centre of the Milky Way in the middle of the image
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Astronomers have had a rare glimpse into the heart of the Milky Way thanks to an errant star expelled from the galactic centre.
At the middle of our galaxy is a supermassive black hole, closely surrounded by a group of hundreds of stars. Slightly further out is a larger disc of stars, and further out still is an even larger star group, called the nuclear star cluster (NSC).
Source link : https://www.newscientist.com/article/2471098-speeding-star-offers-a-rare-glimpse-of-the-milky-ways-galactic-centre/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home
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Publish date : 2025-03-07 14:00:00
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