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 | | Blue and red supergiants, clusters, and H II regions are well resolved across the spiral arms, and dust lanes trace out fine structures in the disk and bar, highlighting the asymmetry between the two sides of the galaxy. |
 | | The nucleus of NGC 1300, shown also in the inset at the lower left, shows an extraordinary "grand-design" spiral structure with a length scale of about 1 kpc. |
 | | NGC 1300 is not known to have an active nucleus, however, indicating either that there is no fl hole, or that it is currently quiescent. |
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