“The outer ring, located about 700 light-years from the centre, appears mostly red and is home to tremendous bursts of star formation.
“A previously unseen inner ring, visible inside the green disk, is only 130 light-years from the centre.”
The nostalgic-look back at one of Hubble’s most famous images neatly coincides with the news our planet is 2,000 light-years closer to the Sagittarius A* than previously thought.
This supermassive black hole, boasting a mass approximately four millions times that of our Sun, is found sitting in the centre of our galaxy.
The radio astronomy project VERA has for the past 15 years been combining information data from around the world to create the most accurate map of the Milky Way ever made.
source: express.co.uk