Galactic center

Sgr A* - The Supermassive Black Hole in the Milky Way-Radio image of the Galactic Center - Credit: Kassim et al. Naval Research Lab, APOD

The Galactic Center | Cool Cosmos

The European Space Agency says its flagship Herschel telescope, the most powerful infrared observatory ever put in orbit, has run out of coolant and stopped working.

(Phys.org) —Scientists from Stanford and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have analyzed more than four years of data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, along with data from other experiments, to create the most detailed portrait yet of two towering bubbles that stretch tens of thousands of light-years above and below our galaxy.

Astronomy’s Instagram profile post: “The whole Solar System orbits the galactic core, the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* at the center of Milky way galaxy and our solar…”

To get a grasp of where we are in the cosmos involves plenty of research over a long time and educated guesswork along the way. Today we understand our place in the galaxy and at this time, the peculiar alignment between our solar system and the heart of the galaxy.