FOR RELEASE: 7:00 pm (EST)/4:00 pm (PST) January 10, 2005

PHOTO NO.: STScI-PRC05-01


A POSTER-SIZE IMAGE OF THE BEAUTIFUL BARRED SPIRAL GALAXY NGC 1300

One of the largest Hubble Space Telescope images ever made of a complete
galaxy is being unveiled today at the American Astronomical Society
meeting in San Diego, Calif. The Hubble telescope captured a display of
starlight, glowing gas, and silhouetted dark clouds of interstellar dust
in this 4-foot-by-8-foot image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300.

Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Acknowledgment: P. Knezek (WIYN)

For more information, please contact:
Keith Noll, Hubble Heritage Team, Space Telescope Science Institute,
3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, (phone) 410-338-1828,
(fax) 410-338-4579, (e-mail) or

Pat Knezek, WIYN Consortium, Inc., 950 N. Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ,
(phone) 520-318-8442, (fax) 520-318-8360, (e-mail) .

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http://hubblesite.org/news/2005/01

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