... The Galactic Center Across the Infrared . ... Credit: 2MASS Project , UMass , IPAC/Caltech , NSF , NASA Explanation: The center of our Galaxy is obscured in visible light by dark dust that rotates with the stars in the Galactic Plane . In this century, however, sensors have been developed that can detect light more red that humans can see - light called infrared . The above picture shows what the Galactic Center looks like in three increasingly red bands of near-infrared light. ...