The Galactic Minispiral as seen in the mid-infrared (MIR). The panels zoom in from left to right. Left: the VISIR PAH1 8.58 μm image (C. K. Dinh et al. 2024), middle: MIRI Medium Resolution Spectrograph (MRS) summed flux in spectral channel 4 (Ch4; 17.70–27.90 μm), and right: spectral channel 1 (Ch1; 4.9–7.65 μm). The left panel is overlaid with coordinates colored by gas radial velocity derived from Brγ (M. S. Nitschai et al. 2020). Sgr A*’s position is marked with a white star in all panels. In the middle and right panels, W-R star positions (T. Paumard et al. 2006; A. Ciurlo et al. 2023; C. K. Dinh et al. 2024) are marked with gray crosses, and a selection of compact structures (C. K. Dinh et al. 2024) are marked with gray circles. Spectral extraction apertures are labeled with black circles.