Peering deep into the heart of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals a rich tapestry of more than half a million stars. Apart from a few, blue, foreground stars, almost all of the stars pictured in the image are members of the Milky Way nuclear star cluster, the densest and most massive star cluster in the galaxy. Hidden in the centre of this cluster is the Milky Way’s resident supermassive black hole.
The release, images and videos are available on:
http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1606/
Kind regards,
ESA/Hubble Information Centre
The ESO Education and Public Outreach Department
31 March 2016
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