Brand new discovery lends credibility to numerous habitable planets ( Photo shows Hundreds of thousands of stars crowded into the swirling core of our spiral Milky Way galaxy). The new amazing photo, which was released today (March 28), combines infrared images of the Milky Way taken during sky surveys by two different instruments, the UK Infrared Telescope in Hawaii and the VISTA telescope in Chile.

“This incredible image gives us a new perspective of our galaxy, and illustrates the far-reaching discoveries we can make from large sky surveys,” Nick Cross, of the University of Edinburgh, said in a statement. “Having data processed, archived and published by dedicated teams leaves other scientists free to concentrate on using the data, and is a very cost-effective way to do astronomy.”

It all started with a big bang!

Sources: Space.com, InfoWars.com