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WELCOME to the most intriguing location in our galaxy, one that makes our spot appear a quiet backwater by comparison.
The Milky Way is a disc some 100,000 light years across that consists of at least 250 billion stars, possibly as many as a trillion. This composite image, taken by three orbiting observatories – NASA’s Hubble, Spitzer and Chandra telescopes – reveals our galaxy’s mysterious core. At 26,000 light years away, it is a slice of sky…
