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[Music throughout]

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[SFD Dust Map]

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The Milky Way has thick bands of gas and dust

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which block our view of what’s behind. [Deep Star Map 2020]

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Infrared light can travel through that material ... [Hubble Space Telescope visible-light image]

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... revealing hidden stars. [Hubble infrared image]

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Infrared light has a longer wavelength than visible,

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so it’s less likely to be scattered or absorbed by small particles.

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The far side of the Milky Way remains largely unknown.

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Future infrared telescopes with greater sensitivity will help 

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astronomers map that region

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by seeing deeper and with more detail than ever before.