In this week's Astronomy magazine podcast, we'll help you observe the extinct constellation Machina Electrica, Cleopatra's Eye (NGC 1535), and spiral galaxy NGC 1300 in your December night sky.

Called NGC 1300, it can be found 69 million light-years from Earth in the constellation of Eridanus. ... many of the brightest sources of light are not from NGC 1300, but from our own Galaxy.

While one-third of spiral galaxies have bars, ours is smaller than many, like NGC 1300’s. The galaxy NGC 2775, shown here, displays one of best known examples of flocculent spiral arms, ...

To identify the spiral arms, however, you have to crank the power past 200x. Astronomers classify M100 as a starburst galaxy. Our next target, NGC 1300, ...

NGC 1300: a spiral galaxy, with a bar of stars and gas at its centre, located approximately 61 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Eridanus. This image, ...

NGC 1300 is known as a barred spiral galaxy. These types of galaxies have arms that do not spiral back toward the center of the galaxy, but connect through a star bar that crosses through the galaxy's ...

The spiral galaxy NGC 1300 makes few if any stars in its bright bar. Simulations suggest gas clouds colliding at high speed stunt star formation.

This iconic Hubble image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1300 is suffused with detail—bright blue young stars, the dust lanes spiraling around the bright nucleus, distant galaxies shining through.

Dubbed NGC 1300, the galaxy lies 69 million light-years from Earth. BAR SCENE Composite view of the spiral galaxy NGC 1300 recorded in visible and infrared light.

This iconic Hubble image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1300 is suffused with detail—bright blue young stars, the dust lanes spiraling around the bright nucleus, distant galaxies shining through.

Galaxy NGC 4214 is dominated by a huge glowing cloud of hydrogen gas in which new stars are being born. A heart-shaped hollow — possibly galaxy NGC 4214’s most eye-catching feature — can be ...