Stars Gather in 'Downtown' Milky Way Wall Art including Frame canvas the Milky Way flies through

the Milky Way flies through the picture like a gigantic insect

Text credit: ESA (European Space Agency)

an enormous ring called the GS234-02 star-forming supershell (located in the Perseus arm of the Milky Way

bright feature at the top of the image is the well-known Orion Nebula (Messier 42)

Stars Gather in 'Downtown' Milky Way Wall Art including Frame canvas the Milky Way flies throughThe region around the center of our Milky Way galaxy glows colorfully in this new version of an image taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The data were previously released as part of a long, 120 degree view of the plane our galaxy. Now, data from the very center of that picture are being presented at a different contrast to better highlight this jam packed region. In visible light pictures, it is all but impossible to see the heart of our galaxy,