Webb image archive
Galactic Center (Chandra, Hubble, Spitzer Compass Image)
This composite image of the center of our Milky Way galaxy was captured by the Chandra X-ray Observatory’s Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer, the Hubble Space Telescope’s Near ...
- Date
- Dec 13, 2023
- Observatory
- James Webb Space Telescope
- Credit
- NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI
- Archive ID
- 01FJHRXNB7Z3H9BA10RGPKV185
This composite image of the center of our Milky Way galaxy was captured by the Chandra X-ray Observatory’s Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer, the Hubble Space Telescope’s Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer, and the Spitzer Space Telescope’s Infrared Array Camera.
At the center is a label that points to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A* (pronounced A-star).
This image shows invisible infrared and X-ray wavelengths of light that have been translated into visible-light colors.
Read a description of the image.
Credits
Science
NASA, ESA, SSC, CXC, STScI