The Milky Way is our home galaxy, a vast collection of stars, planets, and other celestial objects bound together by gravity. It is a barred spiral galaxy, meaning it has a central bar-shaped structure made of stars, with spiral arms extending outward.
NASA has captured detailed images of the Milky Way using its infrared cameras.
Here are NASA’s top 5. Check them out:
The photograph shows the Milky Way glowing with dust in an all-sky map made by Planck, an ESA mission with contributions from NASA. The fiery coloured towers are actually dust in the galaxy and beyond that has been polarised. The data show light of 353 gigahertz or 0.85 millimetre wavelengths, which is longer than we see with our eyes.
Using data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, scientists have discovered a gigantic and mysterious structure on our planet. galaxyThis formation looks like a pair of bubbles extending above and below the center of our galaxy. Each lobe is 25,000 light-years across and the entire structure may be only a few million years old.
This panorama offers an unprecedented X-ray view above and below the center of the Milky WayThis new study builds on previous observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, and links together 370 separate telescope observation points. In this main image, different Chandra X-ray bands (orange, green, violet) have been combined with radio data (gray). These data reveal wisps of superheated gas and magnetic fields near the center of the Milky Way.
NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) observed magnetic fields shown in this composite image of Centaurus A. They are shown as streamlines over an image of the galaxy taken in visible and submillimeter wavelengths by the European Southern Observatory and the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (orange), X-ray wavelengths from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue), and infrared wavelengths from NASA’s NASA SpaceX Space Telescope (blue). POTSpitzer Space Telescope (dark red).
The center of our Milky Way galaxy is hidden from the prying eyes of optical telescopes by clouds of dust and gas that obscure it. But in this stunning view, infrared cameras on NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope penetrate much of the dust and reveal the stars of the galaxy’s crowded central region.
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