In this case, I’m not going to go through my usual approach of keeping the subject of a photograph a secret, and asking readers to guess what it is before they look it up. I’m just too excited to discuss what this picture shows.
This picture isn’t a classic photograph, actually. It’s an infrared image of the middle of the Milky Way, our own galaxy, where stars come thick. The galaxy center is obscured by dark clouds of matter in the spectrum of light visible to the naked human eye, but infrared cuts through those clouds to bring us the image above.
It’s actually a hybrid image, assembled from the work of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope.
Amazing.
i’ve seen the other images you have shown and wondered how to respond. all i can say is these photograghs are masterpieces of a new millenium artwork. worthy of any art gallery or museum.