Not bad, but could have been done better - and anyway haven't they decided that the Milky Way is a barred spiral now.
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Wednesday, 25 March 2009
Monday, 15 December 2008
Images & Video of Stars Orbiting Milky Way Black Hole
Stunning images and video of the heart of the Milky Way. Never realised they were resolving the individual stars there. The image above is only 1 parsec across - just short of the distance from us to Alpha Centauri. Particularly striking as I'm reading Incandesence by Greg Egan which is set there.
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