NGC 1300 - Hubble Legacy, Francesco Sarcinella

NGC 1300 - Hubble Legacy

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)
NGC 1300 - Hubble Legacy, Francesco Sarcinella

NGC 1300 - Hubble Legacy

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)

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NGC 1300 by Hubble Space Telescope, processed by me.

I’ve processed this beautiful galaxy taken by HST, and cropped for a more close-up in the core.

NGC 1300 is a barred spiral galaxy located about 61 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. The galaxy is about 110,000 light-years across (about the same size of the Milky Way). It is a member of the Eridanus Cluster, a cluster of 200 galaxies.

In the core of the larger spiral structure of NGC 1300, the nucleus shows a "grand-design" spiral structure that is about 3,300 light-years long. Only galaxies with large-scale bars appear to have these grand-design inner disks — a spiral within a spiral.

Credit: NASA/ESA

Processed by Francesco Sarcinella

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NGC 1300 - Hubble Legacy, Francesco Sarcinella