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Jamie Carter

Space photo of the week: The chaotic heart of the Milky Way like you've never seen it before

An image of the Milky Way captured by the MeerKAT radio telescope. At the center of the MeerKAT image the region surrounding the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole blazes bright. Huge vertical filamentary structures echo those captured on a smaller scale by Webb in Sagittarius C’s blue-green hydrogen cloud. .

What it is: Sagittarius C (Sgr C) region of the Milky Way.

Where it is: 25,000 light-years from the solar system in the constellation Sagittarius.

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