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Final Frontier: Images From Far Reaches of the Universe
Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have finally found newborn stars at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. A frenzied mess of stars, dust and gas populate the heart of our spiral galaxy and in the very center exists a black hole. Because of the chaos, scientists say, it's difficult to identify baby stars. The recent discovery is the first of its kind, NASA says.
"These stars are like needles in a haystack," said Solange Ramirez, the principal investigator of the research program at NASA's Exoplanet Science Institute at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. "There's no way to find them using optical light, because dust gets in the way. We needed Spitzer's infrared instruments to cut through the dust and narrow in on the objects."
(NASA)
