Sunday, January 16, 2005


Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300


via Astronomy Picture of the Day (link)

pretty, pretty Credit: Hubble Heritage Team, ESA, NASA

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 was released at this week’s meeting of the American Astronomical Society as 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. Unlike other spiral galaxies, including our own Milky Way, NGC 1300 is not presently known to have a massive central black hole.


:: Dave Walker 10:56 (EST/EDT) [+]

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theMetalRepublican wrote:

Title: the Evanescence Galaxy

Date: 4/4/2005 00:11:18

Response:
Eversince I first saw this beauty NGC 1300, I thought of Evanescence. It is very much like their symbol / logo. A great band deserves a beautiful galaxy.



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