NASA Hubble Survey Helps Untangle the History of the Milky Way's Core

NASA Hubble survey helps untangle the history of the Milky Way's core

The Milky Way's core doesn't look like the ancient stellar graveyard many astronomers once thought it was.At the heart of a massive new survey from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers are mapping one of the most crowded regions in our galaxy. Early results from the project may help address a long-running debate about the age of the Milky Way's central bulge — the tightly packed region of space surrounding the galaxy's core.For decades, ma…

Hubble Survey Sets Up Roman’s Future Look Near Milky Way’s Center

One of the core community surveys of NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, the Galactic Bulge Time-Domain Survey, is expected to locate over a thousand exoplanets that orbit far away from their stars, beyond the orbital distance of Earth from the Sun. Although Roman hasn't launched yet, astronomers already are gathering useful supporting data by utilizing NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, which could assist astronomers in analyzing Roman data.

Hubble Survey Sets Up Roman’s Future Look Near Milky Way’s Center - NASA Science

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