Billions of Celestial Objects Revealed in Gargantuan Survey of the Milky Way | Center for Astrophysics

Cambridge, MA – A new astronomical survey is a portrait of gargantuan proportions. It shows the staggering number of stars bristling among the wispy bands of dust in our home galaxy, the Milky Way. The heart of our galaxy — the central bulge of bright blue stars that also contains the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* — is at the left side of this panorama.