A map of the sky assembled using data from the gaia space telescope, with the center of the milky way in the middle of the image
Esa/Gaia/DPAC
Astronomers have had a rare Glimpse into the heart of the milky way to an errant star expected from the Galatic Center.
At the middle of our galaxy is a supermassive black hole, closely surrounded by a group of hundreds of stars. Slightly further out is a larger disc of stars, and further out stil is an even larger star group, called the nuclear star cluster (NSC).
