7 captivating images of the Milky Way shared by NASA

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7 captivating images of the Milky Way shared by NASA





















































































This landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” dotted with twinkling stars is actually the boundary of a nearby young star-forming region called NGC 3324.













The Milky Way is ablaze with dust in this sky map from Planck, an ESA (European Space Agency) mission with major contributions from NASA













A festive portrait of our galaxy, the Milky Way, shows a hodgepodge of gases, charged particles and several types of dust













The center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, is hidden from the prying eyes of optical telescopes by clouds of dark dust and gas.













NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) observed magnetic fields shown in this composite image of Centaurus A.













Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have painted a comprehensive picture of the evolution of the universe – one of the most colorful images of deep space ever captured at the time.















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