A new view from the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) captures the abundant star-forming region at the center of the Milky Way.
The VLT, located in Chile's Atacama Desert, snapped an infrared image of a region called Sagittarius C (Sgr C), which is located about 300 light-years from the Milky Way's central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*. Sgr C is home to hundreds of thousands of stars, a large number of which are visible in the newly released image.
