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Featured on December 18, 2016

NGC 1300 is one of the most beautiful barred spiral galaxies in the universe. It consists of a long bar of mainly older stars across its middle, with dramatic spiral arms, which contain many young stars, spinning off the bar's ends. The galaxy, shown here in a Hubble Space Telescope image, is about 20 million light-years away, in the constellation Eridanus. [NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)]

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Hubble Space Telescope view of the galaxy NGC 1300

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