Zooming to the Center of the Milky Way

This video zooms into a view of the center of our Milky Way galaxy, and ends on a new photo obtained by the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab. The DECam image in the middle of this zoom covers around 4 x 2 degrees (an area about 8 times as wide as the full Moon), and the final image covers 0.5 by degrees (an area about twice as wide as the full Moon). More information and download options: Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/STScI, W. Clarkson (UM-Dearborn), C. Johnson (STScI), M. Rich (UCLA)/, S. Brunier/Digitized Sky Survey 2