See the most detailed view yet of the center of our galaxy
Taken with the HAWK-I instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in the Chilean Atacama Desert, this stunning image shows the Milky Way’s central region with an angular resolution of 0.2 arcseconds. This means the level of detail picked up by HAWK-I is roughly equivalent to seeing a football (soccer ball) in Zurich from Munich, where ESO’s headquarters are located.ESO/Nogueras-Lara et al. This beautiful image is the most detailed observation yet of the center of our galaxy, collected by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope....