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Galactic Bulge Pull-out
This image shows a wide-field view of the center of the Milky Way with a pull-out image taken by the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) at the Cerro-Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. While the Milky Way photo spans 71 degrees of the sky, the DECam image covers 0.5 by 0.25 degre...
- Date
- Jan 1, 2020
- Mission
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Archive ID
- hubblesite-images-2020-56-4763-image
This image shows a wide-field view of the center of the Milky Way with a pull-out image taken by the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) at the Cerro-Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. While the Milky Way photo spans 71 degrees of the sky, the DECam image covers 0.5 by 0.25 degrees (an area about twice as wide as the full Moon).
Credits
Milky Way photo: Akira Fujii; Inset photo: CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/STScI, W. Clarkson (UM-Dearborn), C. Johnson (STScI), and M. Rich (UCLA)Image Details
| About The Object | |
|---|---|
| Object Name | Milky Way |
| Object Description | Milky Way bulge |
| R.A. Position | 17:58:57.92 |
| Dec. Position | -29:12:11.35 |
| Distance | About 25,000 light-years from Earth |
| Dimensions | About 71 degrees across (about 35,600 light-years) |
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