Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. The center of our Galaxy is obscured in visible light by dark dust that rotates with the stars in the Galactic Plane . In this century, however, sensors have been developed that can detect light more red that humans can see - light called infrared . The above picture shows what the Galactic Center looks like in three increasingly red bands of near-infrared light. The picture results from a digital combination of data recently taken by the 2MASS and MSX Galactic surveys.
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