This striking infrared image, captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, shows the center of our Milky Way Galaxy crowded with stars. Dust usually obscures our view into the center of the galaxy 26,000 light years away, but the Spitzer's keen infrared eyes can see through dust. This photograph is actually a composite of many smaller snapshots taken by the infrared camera. Older, cooler stars appear blue while younger, hotter ones cluster in clouds of reddish dust.
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*Image: Susan Stolovy et al/**NASA, JPL-Caltech. *
