Spiral Galaxy NGC 300 in Sculptor | MPG/ESO Telescope

Spiral Galaxy NGC 300 in Sculptor | MPG/ESO Telescope

NGC 300 is a spiral galaxy similar to our own Milky Way galaxy. It is a member of a nearby group of galaxies known as the Sculptor group, named for the southern constellation where the group can be found. The distance to NGC 300 is 6.5 million light-years, making it one of the Milky Way's closer neighbors.

This is a color-composite image of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 300 and the surrounding sky field, obtained in 1999 and 2000 with the Wide-Field Imager (WFI) on the MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile.

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Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Release Date: Aug. 7, 2002

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