This Is What The Center Of The Milky Way Looks Like

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An X-ray image of a portion of the Milky Way. ESA/XMM-Newton/G. Ponti et al. 2015.

These images reveal a remarkable view of some of the events taking place in the Milky Way – and show their effects on their surroundings. The mosaic images, which span 1,000 light-years across, were compiled from a month’s worth of X-ray data from ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory, which orbits Earth.