Baade's Window and Galactic Bulge (Greg Mitchell)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Sagittarius (Sgr) · Contains: 10 Sgr) · Al Nasl · El Nasl (γ Sgr · NGC 6451 · NGC 6520 · Nash · Nushaba · The star Alnasl · The star γ1 Sgr · γ2 Sgr

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Baade's Window and Galactic Bulge

This has always been one of my favorite regions of the sky. The glittering jewels of the central bulge, Alnasl shining like a searing flame, with the globulars NGC 6522 and 6528, the various dark nebula including Barnard 86 and the cool blues of NGC 6520. I was fortunate to be able to capture this on a trip to Sedona Arizona in June. This region is one of the few views we have of the central bulge of our Milky Way galaxy.

The galactic core and Sagittarius A* (our Galaxy's central supermassive blackhole) are just off to the right and slightly above the top right corner of this image. Unfortunately, we can't see that region in optical wavelengths due to the dust obscuring our view of the core of the galaxy itself. You can see how dark and dusty the top portions of the image become. The bulge is filled with dimmer, older, and redder stars than the spiral arms where we live, that's as close are we humans will get to seeing the core in optical wavelengths.

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