The Spiral in the Heart of our Galaxy

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The Spiral in the Heart of our Galaxy

In the heart of our 100,000 light-year wide spiral Milky Way Galaxy lies a miniature spiral of ionized gas only 10 light-years across. The Very Large Array (VLA) caught this gas in the act of orbiting around the supermassive black hole in the core of our Galaxy.

Credit: (NRAO/AUI/NSF)

Technical Details
Telescope	VLA
Band	C
Date	1982-00-00
Center	RA: 17:42:29.3, Dec: -28:59:18.6
Field of View	3 x 3 arcminutes

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