Structure and kinematics of the Milky Way's nuclear star cluster

The Galactic center is a unique target for studying the properties of the nuclei of galaxies in general. The supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, that is located at the dynamical center of the Milky Way is surrounded by the densest and most massive star cluster of our Galaxy. In this talk I will focus on the most recent results of research on the structure and kinematics of the Milky Way's nuclear star cluster. Adaptive optics imaging is a necessary pre-requisite for this kind of work, which relies heavily on imaging data taken with NACO at the ESO VLT. In the past years enormous progress has been made in our understanding of the Galactic center. However, it is also surprising that several fundamental aspects of the nuclear star cluster have yet to be explored.