02.04.2016 22:03
Hubble Space Telescope managed peered deep into our galaxy, photographed its center in the infrared range. The image of the central region of the Milky Way has been posted on the official website of the American space agency NASA.
The plot of the starry sky, was captured in a picture, is at a distance of 27 thousand light-years away from our planet. Except bluish stars in the foreground, all trapped “in the frame” points are a single cluster of stars, one of the biggest in our galaxy.
Scientists believe that these stars are surrounded by a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, The mass which is about four million times the mass of the sun.
Existing data indicate that only a portion of the Milky way, set down in a picture, maybe there are more than 10 million stars. The picture covers the length of the space station about 50 light-years
How to tell the experts NASA, astrophysicists for similar images are far beyond the aesthetic value -. Through them, scientists can obtain information about the mass of the stars and their chemical composition. Also similar observations to learn more about the history of this cluster of stars, and to some extent about the whole of our galaxy. In particular, experts are hoping to find an answer to the question how the cluster was formed – formed if a large number of different stars next to each other at once, or they were gradually “tightened” in the center of the universe from its various sections
. This is not the first photograph taken by the orbiting observatory “Hubble”, submitted by the general public. In particular, NASA has recently presented a snapshot of galaxies merging into a single entity, which is called MACS J0416.1-2403 – this image the astronomers call “cosmic kaleidoscope.” Another picture, by the unofficial name of “the sky with diamonds”, depicts the star cluster Trumpler 14 in the Carina Nebula Eta.
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