Smithsonian Chandra images

[DarkPenguin]

New Vista of Milky Way Center Unveiled: A 400 by 900 light-year mosaic of images located about 26,000 light years from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius....




Full set is here ...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/s...57608016866848/

[bill t.]

Chandra sure takes some groovy snaps!

There's a great video of stars doing hyperbolic hairpin turns around the Milky Way Black Hole in this region.  Somewhere.  Anybody have it?

I like the Toltec Supernova face...