Spiral Galaxy - NGC 1300 Medium:Poster Kepler stared at a single

Kepler stared at a single patch of sky for four years

This photograph was taken during a trip to discover the island of Tenerife in the Canary archipelago

These galaxies are located 350 million light years away from us

The galaxies in this scene that are farthest away – the tiniest galaxies that are located well behind the cluster – look nothing like the spiral and elliptical galaxies observed in the local universe

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Spiral Galaxy - NGC 1300 Medium:Poster Kepler stared at a singleMajestic 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