Swirling beauty of the Milky Way galaxy's heart is captured in a new telescope picture

A telescope in Chile has revealed the swirling splendor of star-forming gases at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy. The European Southern Observatory released the picture Wednesday. It zeros in on a region of cold cosmic gases stretching more than 650 light-years. The clouds of gas and dust surround the supermassive black hole at the galactic dead center. It’s the largest image ever taken by the ALMA antenna network in the Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on Earth.