Big, beautiful, barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300 [ http://heritage.sts…supplemental.html ] lies some 70 million light-years away on the banks of the constellation Eridanus [ http://www.hawastso…]. This Hubble Space Telescope composite view [ http://hubblesite.o…2005/01/ ] of the gorgeous island universe is one of the largest Hubble images [ http://hubblesite.o…2005/01/image/a warn ] ever made of a complete galaxy. NGC 1300 [ http://heritage.sts…] spans over 100,000 light-years and the Hubble [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] 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 [ http://csep10.phys.…astr162/lect/galaxie s/hubble.html ] spiral itself shows a remarkable region of spiral structure [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] about 3,000 light-years across. Unlike other spiral galaxies [ http://en.wikipedia…], including our own Milky Way [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…], NGC 1300 is not presently known to have a massive central black hole [ http://hubblesite.o…releases/1997/01/tex t/ ].
Explanation
Big, beautiful, barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300 [ http://heritage.sts…supplemental.html ] lies some 70 million light-years away on the banks of the constellation Eridanus [ http://www.hawastso…]. This Hubble Space Telescope composite view [ http://hubblesite.o…2005/01/ ] of the gorgeous island universe is one of the largest Hubble images [ http://hubblesite.o…2005/01/image/a warn ] ever made of a complete galaxy. NGC 1300 [ http://heritage.sts…] spans over 100,000 light-years and the Hubble [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] 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 [ http://csep10.phys.…astr162/lect/galaxie s/hubble.html ] spiral itself shows a remarkable region of spiral structure [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] about 3,000 light-years across. Unlike other spiral galaxies [ http://en.wikipedia…], including our own Milky Way [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…], NGC 1300 is not presently known to have a massive central black hole [ http://hubblesite.o…releases/1997/01/tex t/ ].
