The Galactic Center

Astronomers using the infrared cameras onboard the Spitzer Space Telescope were able to remove most of the dust and planetary gases to reveal the stars surrounding the Milky Way's galactic center. Visible in this image are many young stars forming in stellar nurseries. From our view from earth, the region of space that contains the Milky Way's center is the constellation Sagittarius and from earth the galactice center is approximately 26,000 light-years away. The galactic center is a place of star formation and intense gravity fields. Located at the very center of the glactic field is a massive black hole that every in our universe revolves around. The mass of the black hole is about two million times the mass of our own sun.