{"id":185173,"date":"2025-11-17T11:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T11:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/185173\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T11:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T11:34:09","slug":"hubble-space-telescope-snaps-new-image-of-ngc-4535","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/185173\/","title":{"rendered":"Hubble Space Telescope Snaps New Image of NGC 4535"},"content":{"rendered":"

Astronomers using the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a remarkable new image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 4535.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This Hubble image NGC 4535, a spiral galaxy located some 52.6 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo. Image credit: NASA \/ ESA \/ Hubble \/ F. Belfiore \/ J. Lee \/ PHANGS-HST Team.<\/p>\n

NGC 4535<\/a> is located around 52.6 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo.<\/p>\n

Otherwise known as LEDA 41812 and UGC 7727, this galaxy is 115,000 light-years<\/a> across.<\/p>\n

It was first observed by the German-British astronomer William Herschel on December 28, 1785.<\/p>\n

When seen through a smaller telescope, NGC 4535 has a hazy, ghostly appearance, which inspired the prominent amateur astronomer Leland S. Copeland to name it \u2018The Lost Galaxy\u2019 in the 1950s.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis galaxy has been nicknamed the \u2018Lost Galaxy\u2019 because it\u2019s extremely faint when viewed through a small telescope,\u201d the Hubble astronomers said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith a mirror spanning 2.4 m across, Hubble is well equipped to observe dim galaxies like NGC 4535 and pick out features like its massive spiral arms and central bar of stars.\u201d<\/p>\n

NGC 4535 is one of the largest galaxies in the Virgo Cluster, a massive cluster of as many as 2,000 galaxies, and is located close to the giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87.<\/p>\n

The galaxy\u2019s almost circular appearance shows that we observe it nearly face-on.<\/p>\n

In its center, there is a well-defined bar structure, with dust lanes that curve sharply before the spiral arms break from the ends of the bar.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn full display in the Hubble image are NGC 4535\u2019s young star clusters, which dot the galaxy\u2019s spiral arms,\u201d the astronomers said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany of the groupings of bright blue stars are enclosed by glowing pink clouds.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThese clouds, called H II regions<\/a>, are a sign that the galaxy is home to especially young, hot, and massive stars that are blazing with high-energy radiation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBy heating the clouds in which they were born, shooting out powerful stellar winds, and eventually exploding as supernovae, massive stars certainly shake up their surroundings.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new Hubble image incorporates data from an observing program that will catalogue roughly 50,000 H II regions in nearby star-forming galaxies.<\/p>\n

\u201cA previous image of NGC 4535 was released<\/a> in 2021,\u201d the researchers said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoth the 2021 image and today\u2019s image incorporate observations from the PHANGS program<\/a>, which seeks to understand the connections between young stars and cold gas.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cToday\u2019s image adds a new dimension to our understanding of NGC 4535 by capturing the brilliant red glow of the nebulae that encircle massive stars in their first few million years of life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Astronomers using the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a remarkable new image of the barred spiral galaxy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[60351,18,7443,19,17,104293,133,7449],"class_list":{"0":"post-185173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-barred-spiral-galaxy","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-galaxy","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-ngc-4535","14":"tag-science","15":"tag-spiral-galaxy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115564830276318337","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}