Monday 16 October 2023

The centre of the Milky Way Galaxy and the constellation Sagittarius

 

Images taken with the Bradford Autonomous Telescope
 in 2015 Credit for data processing Pip Stakkert.  Image
below the central section of the image above.


The location of Sagittarius A* has been highlighted by
the white circle overlaid the above image. 

"The centre of the Milky Way is never visible from the Jodrell Plank Observatory so this data from the Bradford Robotic Telescope on Mount Teide is a way by which we can showcase the centre of our home galaxy. It is thrilling to think that somewhere in the area highlighted lurks a massive blackhole with a mass equivalent to 4million solar masses".- Kurt Thrust current Director of the Jodrell Plank Observatory.

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