14 DAY TRIAL // NASA is getting ready to push its three big space telescopes to their limits and use them all together to peek at the early days of the universe. But there is plenty to see closer to home too.
Even our own galaxy is massive and contains an enormous number of stars, at least 100 billion.
There's a lot more of them towards the center of the galaxy and this is what the Hubble image you see above shows.
"The crowded center of our galaxy contains numerous complex and mysterious objects that are usually hidden at optical wavelengths by clouds of dust — but many are visible here in these infrared observations from Hubble," NASA explains.
Infrared light can pass through clouds of gas and dust unobscured, revealing the magnificent view at the center of the Milky Way. But, as NASA notes, there's still one thing at the center of the galaxy that remains invisible, the object called Sagittarius A*, very likely a supermassive black hole.