This picture was taken at the Davis Mt.'s State Park in west Texas.. Here and in other dark areas of the USA you can see what the Milky Way looks like from horizon to horizon. In places like this, when the Milky Way is just rising in the east it is bright enough to be mistaken as dawn's early light. The brightest (and lower) area of this picture is looking toward the center of our galaxy. The vast interstellar gas, dust, and debris running roughly along and to the right of the brightest diagonal area obscures the center, the home of our galaxy's own black hole - Sagittarius A. You can see a portion of our galaxy's central bulge to the left of the dark lane. Telescopes that can see in the infrared, sub millimeter, and millimeter wavelengths can see into the heart of the Milky Way. The telescope scheduled to replace Hubble around 2012 will be able to see all the way into the heart of our galaxy, as well as into many other areas obscured by dust and gases.