Baade's Window is an area of the sky with relatively low amounts of interstellar dust along the line of sight from Earth. This area is considered an observational "window" as the normally obscured Gal
Near-Center of the Milky Way with Baade's Window shaded.
NGC 6522 (upper right) and NGC 6528 (lower left) are visible within Baade's Window.
The Large Sagittarius Star Cloud is the brightest visible region of the Milky Way galaxy, a portion of the central bulge seen around the thick dust of the Great Rift which lines the northwest edge. It
Large Sagittarius Star Cloud with Lagoon Nebula above
Star cluster NGC 6520 and dark nebula Barnard 86 within the Large Sagittarius Star Cloud