At the centre of our Milky Way Galaxy, there are more than half a million stars. These stars are part of a massive nuclear star cluster around a central supermassive black hole that is about 4 million times the mass of our Sun.
The Hubble Space Telescope can see through the dust obscuring the star cluster, giving us a clear image at infrared wavelengths. Scientists have converted this infrared light into colours that our eyes can perceive and spent four years mapping the movement of the stars.

The result is this #HubbleClassic, showing a star cluster 50 light-years across in a region 27,000 light-years away.

Image description:

Cream-coloured gas clouds cover the image, which is filled with an enormous abundance of stars. Bright blue stars are in the foreground.

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