The image was constructed from exposures taken in September 2004 by the Advanced Camera for Surveys onboard Hubble in four filters.

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Hubble picture 2

By Duncan Mil

August 26, 2008 - The Hubble telescope captured a display of starlight, glowing gas, and silhouetted dark clouds of interstellar dust in this 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 centre.