Close up on the Milky Way’s Bulge
This image shows a wide-field view of the center of the Milky Way with a pull-out image of the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab. The DECam image covers around 4 x 2 degrees (an area about 8 times as wide as the full Moon).
Credit:CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA/STScI, W. Clarkson (UM-Dearborn), C. Johnson (STScI), and M. Rich (UCLA)/E.Slawik
About the Image
| Id: | noirlab2027c |
| Type: | Collage |
| Release date: | Oct. 27, 2020, 7 a.m. |
| Related releases: | noirlab2027 |
| Size: | 4200 x 4200 px |
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| Band | Tele-scope |
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