The Hubble telescope captured a display of starlight
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The Hubble telescope captured a display of starlight

Caption

The Hubble telescope captured a display of starlight / glowing gas / and silhouetted dark clouds of interstellar dust in this 4-foot-by-8-foot image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300. NGC 1300 is considered to be prototypical of barred spiral galaxies. Barred spirals differ from normal spiral galaxies in that the arms of the galaxy do not spiral all the way into the center / but are connected to the two ends of a straight bar of stars containing the nucleus at its center. The image was constructed from exposures taken in September 2004 by the Advanced Camera for Surveys onboard Hubble in four filters. Starlight and dust are seen in blue / visible / and infrared light. The galaxy lies roughly 69 million light-years away (21 megaparsecs) in the direction of the constellation Eridanus

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NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team/World History Archive

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Photo12/Ann Ronan Picture Library

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ARP11A02_444

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Rights managed

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54,9Mb (2,8Mb) / 19,3in x 11,0in / 5800 x 3310 (300dpi)

Keywords

Astronomy

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