Astronomers have known 3.32 billion celestial items within the Milky Means in extraordinary element.
The galactic landscape of stars, gasoline, mud and a supermassive black hollow referred to as Sagittarius A* used to be captured by way of the U.S. Nationwide Science Basis’s Darkish Power Digital camera on a 4-meter telescope. It’s housed on the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in northern Chile, which sits at an altitude of seven,200 toes, bearing in mind one of the most clearest perspectives of the evening sky.