How does the sheer scale of the Milky Way's center inspire awe and wonder?

Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is an island of starlight. It has spiral arms, a bar across its center, and at least one black hole at its core. May 17, 2021 ... An artist's impression of the thick disc in the middle of the Milky Way. Credit: ESO/NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Kornmesser/R. Hurt, CC BY 4.0. May 1, 2023 ... Infrared observations of the innermost region of the Milky Way galaxy show that many stars orbit around the galactic center at distances ... Oct 22, 2020 ... Below is a picture of the real Milky Way taken by the satellite COBE. The disk and center region of our Galaxy are readily recognizable. Jun 29, 2023 ... ... middle representing the Milky Way. IceCube Collaboration/U.S. National Science Foundation (Lily Le & Shawn Johnson)/ESO (S. Brunier). The ... Conclusions. The orbital structure obtained for the APOGEE stars reveals that the Milky Way hosts an inner ring-like structure between the planar bar and ... Jun 28, 2017 ... On the other hand, the central bulge of a spiral galaxy contains several million stars in a fairly small volume. That central bulge is what you ... Dec 4, 2023 ... ... center of the Milky Way. The turbulent gas cloud, playfully nicknamed “The Brick” due to its opacity, has sparked lively debates within the ... Dec 13, 2023 ... The bar-shaped accumulation of stars at the center of the Milky Way (illustrated) might be billions of years younger than the rest of our galaxy. Nov 14, 2024 ... A whitish, whirlpool-like galaxy at middle of top edge, and a tadpole ... Milky Way galaxy's gaseous halo and lived to tell the tale. But ...