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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
       Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our   
         fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation   
                       written by a professional astronomer.   
      
                                 2024 November 24   
      
                        Journey to the Center of the Galaxy   
           Video Credit: ESO/MPE/Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org)/VISTA/J.   
                          Emerson/Digitized Sky Survey 2   
      
      Explanation: What lies at the center of our galaxy? In Jules Verne's   
      science fiction classic, A Journey to the Center of the Earth,   
      Professor Liedenbrock and his fellow explorers encounter many strange   
      and exciting wonders. Astronomers already know of some of the bizarre   
      objects that exist at our Galactic Center, including vast cosmic dust   
      clouds, bright star clusters, swirling rings of gas, and even a   
      supermassive black hole. Much of the Galactic Center is shielded from   
      our view in visible light by the intervening dust and gas, but it can   
      be explored using other forms of electromagnetic radiation. The   
      featured video is actually a digital zoom into the Milky Way's center   
      which starts by utilizing visible light images from the Digitized Sky   
      Survey. As the movie proceeds, the light shown shifts to   
      dust-penetrating infrared and highlights gas clouds that were recently   
      discovered in 2013 to be falling toward the central black hole.   
      
                          Tomorrow's picture: dark horse   
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