Millions of stars light up largest and most detailed shot of Milky Way’s centre

“This data fires the starting pistol in a new age of exoplanet discovery, where we go from knowing about 6,000 exoplanets to finding more than 100,000 across the galaxy.”

 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/24/stars-galactic-bulge-milky-way-euclid-telescope

 

New image reveals secrets of Milky Way galaxy in stunning detail

"The conditions at the center of our galaxy – the extreme temperatures, pressures, and turbulence – are very similar to the conditions in galaxies in the early universe, when most of the stars that exist today were being formed. Those galaxies are so far away that we cannot observe individual stars and planets forming within them, but we can in the center of our galaxy, and that's what our survey has been able to do," Longmore said...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/feb/26/new-image-milky-way-galaxy