Galactic Beauty

09/24/09

This is an animation is a view of the Galactic Core made from a mosaic of 88 images taken by NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory. Learn more here.

(There’s also a silent, large, and higher-quality QuickTime version available here.)

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