Spiral Galaxy - NGC 1300 The Pleiades and electronic warfare

and electronic warfare

5 light-years or about 57 trillion miles high

he realized that he would need a much more capable computer to manage and integrate the data

The final image is the result of an international collaboration between Jakob Sahner (Germany)

Spiral Galaxy - NGC 1300 The Pleiades and electronic warfareMajestic 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