Sunday, December 14

Christmas lights

Once again the Astronomy Picture of the Day site has a goodie — this is a picture of the center of the Milky Way Galaxy that appeared on December 11, 2008. Go here to see the original. Accompanying the article is a link to a movie taken over a period of 16 years of the stars closest to the central black hole, which has an estimated mass of four million suns. Heavy. Movie shown below.

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