E-card: Stars Gather in 'Downtown' Milky Way

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Title: Puff, the Magic Dragon?

Stars Gather in 'Downtown' Milky Way

 

A view from the bustling center of our galactic metropolis. Spitzer Space Telescope offers us a fresh, infrared view of the frenzied scene at the center of our Milky Way, revealing what lies behind the dust.

Read more about the image at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-088.

A wallpaper of this image is available at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/wallpaper/index.cfm?cid=spitzerecard.

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Whitney Clavin (818) 354-4673
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
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