NASA releases stunning new pic of Milky Way's 'downtown'
By MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer 11 hrs ago
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA has released a stunning new picture of our galaxy’s violent, super-energized “downtown.”
© Provided by Associated Press This false-color X-ray and radio
frequency image made available by NASA on Friday, May 28, 2021
shows threads of superheated gas and magnetic fields at the center
of the Milky Way galaxy. X-rays detected by the NASA's Chandra
X-ray Observatory are in orange, green, blue and purple, and radio
data from the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa are shown in
lilac and gray. The plane of the galazy is horizontal, in the center of
this vertical image. Astronomer Daniel Wang of the University of
Massachusetts Amherst said Friday he spent a year working on this,
while stuck at home during the pandemic.
(NASA/CXC/UMass/Q.D. Wang, NRF/SARAO/MeerKAT via AP)
It's a composite of 370 observations over the past two decades by the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory, depicting billions of stars and countless black holes in the center, or heart, of the Milky Way. A radio telescope in South Africa also contributed to the image, for contrast.
Astronomer Daniel Wang of the University of Massachusetts Amherst said Friday he spent a year working on this while stuck at home during the pandemic.
“What we see in the picture is a violent or energetic ecosystem in our galaxy’s downtown,” Wang said in an email. “There are a lot of supernova remnants, black holes, and neutron stars there. Each X-ray dot or feature represents an energetic source, most of which are in the center.”
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Thanks! 
That's really awe-inspiring.