Baade’s Window
What is the shape and composition of our Milky Way Galaxy? This question would be easier to answer if there wasn't so much obscuring dust! In the 1940s, however, astronomer Walter Baade identified a "window" near the center of our Galaxy where there is comparatively little opaque dust. Now called ” “Baade’s Window", this sky region contains millions of stars and is used for many studies of the distant Milky Way.