Tootfinder

S301 is a very normal #star in a very unusual neighbourhood.
It orbits Sgr A*, the #BlackHole at the #MilkyWay's centre, at 8% of the speed of light, and approaches to within 12 AU (about the distance from the …

This star has the strangest sky in the galaxy
The newfound star S301 orbits the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole so closely that its view of the heavens gets twisted

Accurate distances of the Galactic spiral arms from dust-scattered X-ray emission of gamma-ray bursts: #MilkyWay at Arms' Length: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/XMM-Newton/XMM-Newton_helps_revise_distance_to_outer_spiral_arms / https://chandra.si.edu/press/26_releases/press_070126.html

Evidence of a massive accretion event 1.8 billion years before the Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus merger: #MilkyWay: https://www.iac.es/en/outreach/news/iac-and-ull-have-contributed-hubble-discovery-reveals-one-earliest-mergers-milky-way

Sky test near the zenith a bit outside of Bergrothenfels with the cell phone lying on a car roof - 30 seconds at f/1.79 and ISO 3200 - capturing the #MilkyWay between Cygnus and Cassiopeia.

RE: #MilkyWay, with south up and deliberately out of focus: something we northerners don't see every day ...