
Speeding star offers a rare glimpse of the Milky Way’s galactic centre
A map of the sky assembled using data from the Gaia space telescope, with the centre of the Milky Way in the middle of the image ESA/Gaia/DPAC Astronomers have had a rare glimpse into the heart of the Milky Way thanks to an errant star expelled from the galactic centre. At the middle of our…