Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton and B. Williams (University of Washington)

In the NASA's Hubble Space Telescope view of the spiral galaxy NGC 300, young, blue stars are concentrated in spiral arms that sweep diagonally through the image. The yellow blobs are glowing hot gas that has been heated by radiation from the nearest young, blue stars. NGC 300 is a member of the Sculptor Group of galaxies and it is located 7 million light-years away. This galaxy is part of a detailed survey called the ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey Treasury program (ANGST). The survey explored a region called the "Local Volume," which resides beyond the Local Group of galaxies, an even nearer collection of a few dozen galaxies within about 3 million light-years of our Milky Way Galaxy.

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