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The Centre of the Milky Way
Paranal Observatory
GALACTICNUCLEUS survey
The Centre of the Milky Way
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/S.Stolovy (Spitzer Science Center/Caltech)
European Southern Observatory (ESO)
Scheme of the observed fields over-plotted on a Spitzer/IRAC image at 3.6 μm
HAWK-I/VLT JHK image from the GALACTICNUCLEUS survey
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ERC: European Research Council

The goal of our project is to provide a breakthrough in our knowledge of the stellar structures and stellar populations around the massive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way.

Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC)
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)

Latest news and events

Image of SgrA* from Chandra X-ray Observatory

Conference and discussion at Caixa Forum (Seville)

14 June, 2018 - 19:00

Dr. Rainer Schödel will impart the conference titled "Diez millones de estrellas y un agujero negro: el centro de la Vía Láctea".
The event and the posterior discussion will take place this Thursday, June 14 at 19:00h in Caixa Forum (Seville).

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Center of the Milky Way Galaxy. Credits: Chandra X-ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope

The strange objects at the center of our galaxy: clouds of gas that behave like stars

7 June, 2018 - 09:00

They could be stars blowted by the extreme gravity conditions around Sagittarius A *, the supermassive black hole at the galactic center. The results obtained on three of these objects after eleven years of observations with the Keck telescope (Hawaii) have been presented at the meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS).

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