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Beautiful Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300One of the largest Hubble Space Telescope images ever made of a complete galaxy
is being unveiled today at the American Astronomical Society meeting in San
Diego, Calif.
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. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA)
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