The Milky Way Galaxy SWEEPS Field | Hubble

The Milky Way Galaxy SWEEPS Field | Hubble

This Hubble image shows a dense collection of stars near our galaxy’s core, at a distance of about 26,000 light-years. The region surveyed is part of the Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search (SWEEPS) field. The unusually dust-free location on the sky offers a keyhole view into the "downtown" bulge of our Milky Way galaxy. Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys made the observations in 2004 and 2011-2013.

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency, A. Calamida and K. Sahu of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), and the SWEEPS Science Team; Ground-based Image: A. Fujii

Release Date: November 5, 2015

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