Pictures

Credits

Material on this website may be freely used. However, it is requested that any use of this work be reported to ghez@astro.ucla.edu and given the following acknowledgement: "These images/animations were created by Prof. Andrea Ghez and her research team at UCLA and are from data sets obtained with the W. M. Keck Telescopes." Image creators include Andrea Ghez, Angelle Tanner, Seth Hornstein, Jessica Lu, and Sylvana Yelda.

Animations and Movies

	Animation of the benefits of Adaptive Optics
	2.2 micron animation of the stellar orbits in the central parsec
	Animation showing the power of 30 m Extremely Large Telescopes
	Three-Color Laser Guide Star Movie of the Galactic Center
	Laser Guide Star vs. Natural Guide Star Animation
	Movie of speckle imaging technique

Images and Plots

	Three-Color Laser Guide Star Images
	The First Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics Observations of the Galactic Center (2004)
	Overlay of stellar orbits on an image of the central arcsecond (Updated for 2010)
	Overlay of stellar orbits on a High-Definition image of the Galactic Center
	Correlation Map of the Galactic Center
	Montage of Young Stars in the Galactic Center
	Adaptive Optics Imaging of the Galactic Center (color and black & white)
	Color plot of the stellar orbits in the central parsec
	Gemini galactic center image with interactive labels for many objects
	Mosaic of K-band images taken with Keck