NGC 300 Detail 3
Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys shows individual stars and clusters of stars in the spiral galaxy NGC 300, located approximately 7 million light-years away from Earth.
Credit:
NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton and B. Williams (University of Washington)
About the Image
NASA press release
| Id: | heic0819h |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 30 September 2008, 16:00 |
| Related releases: | heic0819 |
| Size: | 1253 x 2532 px |
About the Object
| Name: | NGC 300 |
| Type: | • Local Universe : Galaxy : Type : Spiral • Galaxies Images/Videos |
| Distance: | 7 million light years |
Colours & filters
| Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
| Optical B |
475 nm | Hubble Space Telescope ACS |
| Optical V |
606 nm | Hubble Space Telescope ACS |
| Infrared I |
814 nm | Hubble Space Telescope ACS |