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Behold: the Milky Way - January 06, 2009

Nature's Eric Hand is blogging this year's American Astronomical Society conference over on the In The Field blog. This image just had to be cross posted.

The sharpest images yet of the central 300 light-years of our galaxy, courtesy Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes. Say no more.

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Image: NASA / ESA / Q.D.Wang / JPL / S.Stolovy

Posted by Daniel Cressey on January 06, 2009
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