NGC 1300 Barred Spiral Galaxy

This barred spiral galaxy is located roughly 70 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. NGC 1300 spans over 100,000 light-years across and the bright bar like structure at the center of the galaxy is what gives it's name. This galaxy, just like ours is considered to have a supermassive black hole at it's center.

Constellation Eridanus

Distance about 61 million light-years from Earth

Size 6′ across in our sky