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Image looking towards the centre of the Milky Way galaxy, taken with the Dark Energy Camera on the Victor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at the Cerro-Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. The image covers 0.5 by 0.25 degrees on the sky (an area about twice as wide as the full Moon) and contains over 180,000 stars, capturing a portion of our galaxy about 220 by 110 light-years across.