This panorama of the Milky Way in the constellations of Scutum and Aquila combines observations from the NRAO Very Large Array and the Spitzer Space Telescope and illustrates the dynamic interplay between the birth and death of massive stars. (Credit: D. Helfand, R. becker, R. White; NRAO/AUI)
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