A Cauldron of Stars at the Galaxy Center
This dazzling infrared image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows hundreds of thousands of stars crowded into the swirling core of our spiral Milky Way galaxy.
- Date
- 2006-01-10
- Photographer / author
- NASA/JPL-Caltech
- Collection
- JPL
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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"A Cauldron of Stars at the Galaxy Center" (2006-01-10). NASA/JPL/NASA/JPL-Caltech. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA03654Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 15965.
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