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This composite color infrared image of the center of our Milky Way galaxy reveals a new population of massive stars and new details in complex structures in the hot ionized gas swirling around the central 300 light-years. Read more: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1578.html Image Credits: Hubble: NASA, ESA, and Q.D. Wang (U. Massachusetts, Amherst); Spitzer: NASA, JPL, and S. Stolovy (Spitzer Science Center/Caltech)