Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300
Explanation:
Big, beautiful, barred spiral galaxy
NGC 1300 lies some 70 million
light-years away on the banks of the
constellation
Eridanus.
This Hubble Space Telescope
composite view of the gorgeous island universe is one of the
largest Hubble images ever made of a complete
galaxy.
NGC 1300
spans over 100,000 light-years and the
Hubble
image reveals striking details of the galaxy's dominant
central bar and majestic spiral arms.
In fact, on close
inspection
the nucleus of this classic
barred
spiral itself shows a remarkable region of
spiral structure
about 3,000 light-years across.
Like other
spiral
galaxies,
including our own
Milky Way, NGC 1300
is thought to have a supermassive
central black hole.
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