NGC 1300

NGC 1300

A Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image of NGC 1300.
Credit: HST/NASA/ESA.
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation Eridanus
Right ascension 03h 19m 41.1s[1]
Declination −19° 24′ 41″[1]
Redshift 0.005260 (1577 ± 4 km/s)[1]
Distance 61.3 Mly (18.8 Mpc)[2]
Apparent magnitude (V) 11.4[1]
Characteristics
Type (R')SB(s)bc[1]
Size 110,000 light years in diameter
Apparent size (V) 6′.2 × 4′.1[1]
Notable features Huge bar-shaped core and two spiral arms
Other designations
MCG-03-09-018,[1] ESO 547 -G 31,[1]
PGC 12412[1]

NGC 1300 is a barred spiral galaxy about 61 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. The galaxy is about 110,000 light-years across (about 2/3 the size of our own galaxy, the Milky Way). It is a member of the Eridanus Cluster, a cluster of 200 galaxies.[3][4] It was discovered by John Herschel in 1835.[5]

In the core of the larger spiral structure of NGC 1300, the nucleus shows a "grand-design" spiral structure that is about 3,300 light-years long. Only galaxies with large-scale bars appear to have these grand-design inner disks — a spiral within a spiral. Models suggest that the gas in a bar can be funneled inwards, and then spiral into the center through the grand-design disk, where it can potentially fuel a central black hole. NGC 1300 is not known to have an active nucleus, indicating that its central black hole is not accreting matter.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database". Results for NGC 1300. Retrieved 2007-03-15.
  2. ↑ Atkinson, J.W.; et al. (May 2005). "Supermassive black hole mass measurements for NGC 1300 and NGC 2748 based on HST emission-line gas kinematics". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 359 (2): 504–520. arXiv:astro-ph/0502573Freely accessible. Bibcode:2005astro.ph..2573A. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.08904.x.
  3. ↑ "NGC 1300, a barred spiral galaxy in Eridanus". annesastronomynews.com. Retrieved 2013-08-18.
  4. ↑ "The Fornax and Eridanus Clusters". An Atlas of The Universe. Retrieved 2010-05-03.
  5. ↑ Seligman, Courtney. "Celestial Atlas: NGC Objects: NGC 1300 - 1349". cseligman.com. Archived from the original on 25 July 2015. Retrieved 25 July 2015.

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