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Galaxy NGC 300

This image of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 300 was taken by Galaxy Evolution Explorer in a single orbit exposure of 27 minutes on October 10, 2003. NGC 300 lies 7 million light years from our Milky Way galaxy and is one of a group of galaxies in the constellation Sculptor. NGC 300 is often used as a prototype of a spiral galaxy because in optical images it displays flowing spiral arms and a bright central region of older (and thus redder) stars. The Galaxy Evolution Explorer image taken in ultraviolet light shows us that NGC 300 is an efficient star-forming galaxy. The bright blue regions in the Galaxy Evolution Explorer image reveal new stars forming all the way into the nucleus of NGC 300. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA04924

Date
2003-12-10
Photographer / author
NASA/JPL/California Institute of Technology
Collection
JPL
Archive
NASA Image and Video Library
Type
photograph

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"Galaxy NGC 300" (2003-12-10). NASA/JPL/NASA/JPL/California Institute of Technology. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA04924

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