NASA releases stunning new pic of Milky Way’s ‘downtown’

  • This false-color X-ray and radio frequency image made available by NASA on Friday, May 28, 2021 shows threads of superheated gas and magnetic fields at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. X-rays detected by the NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory are in orange, green, blue and purple, and radio data from the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa are shown in lilac and gray. The plane of the galaxy is horizontal, in the center of this vertical image. (NASA/CXC/UMass/Q.D. Wang)
    This false-color X-ray and radio frequency image made available by NASA on Friday, May 28, 2021 shows threads of superheated gas and magnetic fields at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. X-rays detected by the NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory are in orange, green, blue and purple, and radio data from the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa are shown in lilac and gray. The plane of the galaxy is horizontal, in the center of this vertical image. (NASA/CXC/UMass/Q.D. Wang)

    CAPE CANAVERAL — NASA has released a stunning new picture of our galaxy’s violent, super-energized “downtown.” 

    It’s a composite of 370 observations over the past two decades by the orbiting Chand…