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Around the compact nucleus of NGC 300

author: Anglo-Australian Observatory/David Malin Images/Novapix

reference: a-gax03-00006

Image Size 300 DPI: 51 * 40 cm

At the centre of the spiral arms of NGC 300 is an unusually compact, star-like nucleus. It is surrounded by a faint but extensive yellow haze, consisting of millions of faint, cool stars. This is the older population, or 'bulge' of NGC 300, a distant equivalent to the (much more numerous) stars that we see in our own galaxy as the brightest part of the Milky Way in Sagittarius.

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1990 - AAO - ASTRONOMY - GALAXY - NGC 300 - NUCLEUS - POSTER - Sc - SCULPTOR - SIDING SPRING - SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE - SPIRAL GALAXY - STAR -