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About This Image
This sweeping panorama is the sharpest infrared picture ever made of the Milky Way's galactic core, where massive stars are forming.
Credit for Hubble image: NASA, ESA, and Q.D. Wang (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Credit for Spitzer image: NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and S. Stolovy (Spitzer Science Center/Caltech)
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