As a European Southern Observatory Photo Ambassador ... center of the Milky Way galaxy," Claro wrote. Claro took the shot using a modified Canon 6D, with a fixed prime lens of 300mm f/2.8 set ...

That is the Milky Way, our home galaxy, and you can see it best on dark, clear nights in the summer. It contains hundreds of billions of stars, including the sun that we orbit. It also has dust ...