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A long stellar bar connects sweeping spiral arms traced by young stars and dark dust.
Also known as NGC1300, Barred Spiral NGC 1300.
One record per aspect. The origin says what kind of thing each value is; the source says where it came from; the limit says what it cannot tell you.
J2000 image-field center RA 3.3 h, Dec -19.4°. Field 5.5 × 3.2 arcminutes; north 29.9° right of vertical.
Approximately 60,000,000 light-years.
The Hubble field constrains projected dust and starlight. No disk inclination or internal stellar depth is inferred from this image alone. Small foreground or background sources inside the selected apertures may remain; they do not have individually measured depths. Projected structure follows the credited observation at its published angular scale and an approximate adopted distance. Shallow depth is illustrative, not measured tomography. The source palette is preserved; brightness is adjusted for the navigable view.
Compare Hubble’s dark dust lanes with infrared-bright filaments along the bar and inner spiral arms. Publisher release: 29 January 2024; this is not the observing epoch.