What is NGC 300?
[[File:View_of_the_southern_spiral_NGC_300.jpg|thumb|Picture of '''NGC 300''' (high resolution)]] '''NGC 300''' (also known as '''Caldwell 70''') is a spiral galaxy in the constellation [[Sculptor (constellation)|Sculptor]]. It is one of the nearest galaxies to the [[Local Group]]. It probably lies between that and the [[Sculptor Group]]. The galaxy is the brightest of the five main spirals in the direction of the Sculptor Group.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Rizzi|first1=Luca|last2=Bresolin|first2=Fabio|last3=Kudritzki|first3=Rolf-Peter|last4=Gieren|first4=Wolfgang|last5=Pietrzynski|first5=Grzegorz|date=2006-02-20|title=The Araucaria Project: The Distance to NGC 300 from the Red Giant Branch Tip using HST/ACS imaging|journal=The Astrophysical Journal|volume=638|issue=2|pages=766–771|doi=10.1086/498705|arxiv=astro-ph/0510298 |s2cid=15632452 |issn=0004-637X}}</ref> It is at an angle of 42° when viewed from [[Earth]], and looks rather like the [[Triangulum galaxy|Triangulum Galaxy]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Vlajić|first1=Marija|last2=Bland-Hawthorn|first2=Joss|last3=Freeman|first3=Ken C.|date=2009-05-20|title=The Abundance Gradient in the Extremely Faint Outer Disk of NGC 300|journal=The Astrophysical Journal|volume=697|issue=1|pages=361–372|doi=10.1088/0004-637X/697/1/361|arxiv=0903.1855 |s2cid=15805386 |issn=0004-637X}}</ref> It is 94,000 [[Light year|light years]] in diameter, somewhat smaller than the [[Milky Way]], and has an estimated mass of (2.9 ± 0.2) × 10<sup>10</sup> ''M''<sub>☉</sub>.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Westmeier|first1=T.|last2=Braun|first2=R.|last3=Koribalski|first3=B. S.|date=2011-02-01|title=Gas and dark matter in the Sculptor group: NGC 300|journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society|volume=410|issue=4|pages=2217–2236|doi=10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17596.x|arxiv=1009.0317 |s2cid=119264221 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2014-07-08|title=NGC 300, a spiral galaxy in Sculptor|url=http://annesastronomynews.com/photo-gallery-ii/galaxies-clusters/ngc-300/|access-date=2022-11-11|website=Anne