Astronomers Spot Spiral within Spiral: NGC 1300 astronomy space science
This image shows NGC 1300, a barred spiral galaxy some 61 million light-years away in the constellation of Eridanus. Image credit: ESO / ALMA / NAOJ / NRAO / PHANGS.Otherwise known as AGC 22472, ESO 547-31, IRAS 03174-1935, LEDA 12412 and UGCA 66, the galaxy was discovered by the English astronomer John Herschel on December 11, 1835.
NGC 1300, which is about 110,000 light-years across, hosts a so-called grand-design inner disk — a spiral within a spiral.
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