Congestion near the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. More than 180,000 stars. And you thought your neighborhood was crowded. Sweeps field (upper left corner) refers to Hubble Space Telescope’s sweep of the area hunting for possible solar systems–looking for brief, periodic changes in brightness when a Jupiter-size planet passes in front of its parent star–candidates for which are within the green circles. /NASA
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