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Center of the Milky Way Galaxy
 
     
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The white dot in the center of the red ring is a giant star. The red ring is a sphere of stellar innards that star.

This is the central region of the Milky Way Galaxy as viewed in infrared light. The image is a composite of mid-infrared imagery from the MSX satellite and near-infrared imagery from the 2MASS survey. WISE images will be similar in quality.

  
       
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