Spiral Galaxy - NGC 1300 The Pleiades Jakob moved over to Photoshop

Jakob moved over to Photoshop to manually fix a lot of the visible problems in the image (even with the new approach

This shot was taken along the amazing black beach in front of the famous mountain of Vestrahorn during a magical night of shining Aurora

only galaxies with large bars appear to have such a "spiral within a spiral

5 light-years or about 57 trillion miles high

Spiral Galaxy - NGC 1300 The Pleiades Jakob moved over to PhotoshopMajestic NGC 1300 is a marvelous example of a barred spiral galaxy. Unlike in other spiral galaxies where the starry arms curl outward from the center of the galaxy, NGC 1300's arms twist away from the ends of a straight bar of stars that stretches across the galaxy's core. Observational evidence suggests that our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is a barred spiral as well. NGC 1300's spiral arms include blue clusters of young stars, pink clouds that are