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Set:NGC 300 by ESO, featured

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  This wide field image shows the area around the spiral galaxy NGC 300, six million light-years from Earth.
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  This chart shows the location of the NGC 300 galaxy within the constellation of Sculptor.
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  The southern spiral galaxy NGC 300
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  The irregular galaxy NGC 55, who is slowly spinning around and towards NGC 300, in the early stages of a lengthy merging process.
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  This image composite shows the spiral galaxy NGC 300, as well as the position of the stellar-mass black hole in the galaxy.
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  This artist’s impression depicts the newly discovered stellar-mass black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 300.

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• This sequence gives a close-up view of the southern spiral galaxy NGC 300
• This zoom sequence starts with a view of part of the faint southern constellation of Sculptor and finish with a close-up of NGC 300 galaxy
• This video zooms in NGC 300 onto the position of the system containing the stellar-mass black hole, and finishes with an artist’s impression of the system.
• This artist’s impression depicts the newly discovered stellar-mass black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 300.
• This artist’s impression depicts the newly discovered stellar-mass black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 300.

•  Info Originally discovered from Australia by the Scottish astronomer James Dunlop early in the nineteenth century, NGC 300 is one of the closest and most prominent spiral galaxies in the southern skies and is bright enough to be seen easily in binoculars. It lies in the inconspicuous constellation of Sculptor. NGC 300 is the home of many interesting astronomical phenomena that have been studied. NGC 300 and another galaxy, NGC 55, are slowly spinning around and towards each other, in the early stages of a lengthy merging process. ESO astronomers recently discovered the most distant and one of the most massive stellar-mass black holes yet found in this galaxy, as the partner of a hot and luminous Wolf–Rayet star in a binary system.
•  Info The image NGC 300 X-1 in the spiral galaxy NGC 300 (ESO 1004c) (part of set) isn't being moninated because don't fulfill the 2Mpx size threshold.
•  Info created by ESO et all - uploaded by Beria, Stas1995, Fabian RRRR and Luiscalcada - nominated by Beria -- Béria Lima ^msg 20:50, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
•  Support -- Béria Lima ^msg 20:50, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
•  Support --Stas1995 (talk) 09:42, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
•  Support interesting --Ezarateesteban 16:50, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
•  Support --ComputerHotline (talk) 18:58, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
•  Support --Cyrfaw (Talk) 07:55, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
•  Comment The second image (star map) is in the wrong format. It should be SVG, or at least PNG. --99of9 (talk) 00:06, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
•  Support A very nice set! Michael Barera (talk) 02:54, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
•  Support --Morning ☼ (talk) 15:53, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 7 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /A.Savin 10:14, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Astronomy