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This Is the Most Detailed Photo of the Milky Way’s Center Ever Taken

This Is the Most Detailed Photo of the Milky Way’s Center Ever Taken

A dense field of stars and cosmic dust fills the image, creating a golden and reddish nebula-like effect, with bright and faint stars scattered throughout the scene.

For just over a single day, the European Space Agency's (ESA) cutting-edge Euclid Space Telescope pointed its lens toward the relatively close and extremely bright inner region of the Milky Way galaxy, known as the galactic bulge. The space telescope made good use of its time, capturing the largest and most detailed photo ever of the Milky Way's galactic center.

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