  We report the discovery of trailing grand-design nuclear spiral structure in
the spiral galaxy NGC 5248. Two tightly-wound red spiral arms, with widths less
than 1 arcsec (~75 pc), emanate at 1 arcsec outside the quiescent nucleus of
the galaxy, and can be followed for 3 arcsec, appearing to end before the
radius of the circumnuclear starburst "ring", which is at 5--6 arcsec or around
400 parsec. Combining our near-infrared Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope adaptive
optics results with traditional near-infrared and optical imaging, we show that
spiral structure is present in this galaxy at spatial scales covering two
orders of magnitude, from a hundred parsecs to 15 kpc. Comparison with a Hubble
Space Telescope ultraviolet image shows how the location of the circumnuclear
star formation relates to the nuclear spiral structure. We briefly discuss
possible mechanisms which could be responsible for the observed nuclear
grand-design spiral structure.
