Images & Video of Stars Orbiting Milky Way Black Hole

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David
on December 15, 2008 8:38 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Stunning images and video of the heart of the Milky Way. Never realised they were resolving the individual stars there. The image above is only 1 parsec across - just short of the distance from us to Alpha Centauri. Particularly striking as I'm reading Incandesence by Greg Egan which is set there.


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