Zooming to the Center of the Milky Way

This video zooms into a view of the center of our Milky Way galaxy, and ends on a new photo obtained by the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab. The DECam image in the middle of this zoom covers around 4 x 2 degrees (an area about 8 times as wide as the full Moon), and the final image covers 0.5 by 0.25 degrees (an area about twice as wide as the full Moon).