Milky Way's Center Will Be Revealed by NASA's Webb Telescope
Release date: October 9, 2019
Galactic dust hides swarms of stars and black hole's glowing disk
To understand galaxies throughout the universe, astronomers start by studying our home galaxy, the Milky Way. Observing the Milky Way is harder than it sounds because vast clouds of dust block light in all directions, particularly toward the galactic center. NASA's upcoming James Webb Space Telescope will gather infrared light from the center of our galaxy that has passed through the dusty veil. It will examine stellar populations to learn how stars can survive that tumultuous region, which is bathed in harsh ultraviolet and X-ray light and wracked with gravitational tides. And if scientists are lucky, they'll spot the faint, steady glow from matter spiraling around a supermassive black hole.
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