Posted on 11/24/2024 12:11:27 PM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: What lies at the center of our galaxy? In Jules Verne's science fiction classic, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, Professor Liedenbrock and his fellow explorers encounter many strange and exciting wonders. Astronomers already know of some of the bizarre objects that exist at our Galactic Center, including vast cosmic dust clouds, bright star clusters, swirling rings of gas, and even a supermassive black hole. Much of the Galactic Center is shielded from our view in visible light by the intervening dust and gas, but it can be explored using other forms of electromagnetic radiation. The featured video is actually a digital zoom into the Milky Way's center which starts by utilizing visible light images from the Digitized Sky Survey. As the movie proceeds, the light shown shifts to dust-penetrating infrared and highlights gas clouds that were recently discovered in 2013 to be falling toward the central black hole.
Today's image is a video at the source link.
🪐 🌟 🌌 🍔 Today's image is a video at the source link.
16th-century Icelandic alchemist and cosmonaut, Arne Saknussemm got there first.
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I didn’t get it - the image zoomed in to something in Saggitarius, kept zooming, then a little box appeared with a fuzzy little thing in it and a date 2002. then the fuzzy thing moved to the upper right and the date changed to 2011. then the date started going backwards 2011 ... 2002.
After several views, I still don’t get it.
Where’s the swirling clouds, where’s the BIG, BLACK HOLE?
Was that fuzzy thing it?
It’s dusty....need some dustbuster type spaceships.
As I understand it, we don’t see the Black Hole, just the gas clouds surrounding it, that are being slowly sucked into it. Someone more knowledgeable can certainly correct me if I’m wrong.
Yes! The Nuge!
I did not understand it either.
Just read the page. It is an infrared view of a dust cloud being moved by the central black hole.
#5 Did you see the duck?
Jules Verne
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