Gaia Galactic Plane (IMAGE)
Caption
more than a billion stars, along with darker, dusty regions Gaia couldn't see through. With its greater sensitivity and longer wavelength coverage, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s galactic plane survey will peer through more of the dust and reveal far more stars.
Visual description: A skinny, horizontal image with a dark, dusty band in the middle spanning from the left edge to the right. Smoky wisps extend hazily out from the central, disconnected dark line. Tiny stars speckle the grayish background and a warm glow emanates from behind the dark band in the middle.
Credit
ESA/Gaia/DPAC
Usage Restrictions
No restrictions.
License
Public Domain