{"id":100819,"date":"2025-10-27T16:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T16:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/100819\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T16:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T16:35:10","slug":"hubble-space-telescope-captures-stunning-new-view-of-ngc-4571","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/100819\/","title":{"rendered":"Hubble Space Telescope Captures Stunning New View of NGC 4571"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This image taken with the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope provides a detailed new look at the star-studded spiral galaxy NGC 4571.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.sci.news\/images\/enlarge13\/image_14308e-NGC-4571.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106995\" class=\"wp-image-106995 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image_14308-NGC-4571.jpg\" alt=\"This Hubble image shows NGC 4571, a spiral galaxy some 60 million light-years away in the constellation of Coma Berenices. Image credit: NASA \/ ESA \/ Hubble \/ F. Belfiore \/ J. Lee \/ PHANGS-HST Team.\" width=\"580\" height=\"534\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-106995\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This Hubble image shows NGC 4571, a spiral galaxy some 60 million light-years away in the constellation of Coma Berenices. Image credit: NASA \/ ESA \/ Hubble \/ F. Belfiore \/ J. Lee \/ PHANGS-HST Team.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/simbad.cds.unistra.fr\/simbad\/sim-id?Ident=NGC+4571\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NGC 4571<\/a> is located 60 million light-years away in the constellation of Coma Berenices.<\/p>\n<p>This galaxy was <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NGC_4571\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">discovered<\/a> by the German-British astronomer William Herschel on January 14, 1787.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise known as IC 3588, LEDA 42100 or UGC 7788, it is classified as a low-surface brightness spiral galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>NGC 4571 is part of the Virgo cluster, which contains more than a thousand galaxies.<\/p>\n<p>This cluster is in turn part of the larger Virgo supercluster, which also encompasses the Local Group which contains our own Milky Way Galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNGC 4571 dominates the scene with its feathery spiral structure and sparkling star clusters,\u201d the Hubble astronomers said about the new image.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe galaxy\u2019s dusty spiral arms are dotted with brilliant pink nebulae that contain massive young stars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThough the star-forming clouds that are seen here are heated to roughly 10,000 K by searing ultraviolet light from the young stars at their cores, stars get their start in much chillier environments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sites of star birth are giant molecular clouds tens to hundreds of light-years across, in which the temperature hovers just a few tens of degrees above absolute zero.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe dramatic transformation from freezing gas cloud to fiery young star happens thanks to the immense pull of gravity, which collects gas into dense clumps within a star-forming cloud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs these clumps yield to gravity\u2019s pull and collapse inward, they eventually become hot and dense enough to spark nuclear fusion in their centers and begin to shine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe glowing clouds in this image surround particularly massive stars that are hot enough to ionize the gas of their birthplaces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, the Hubble team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.news\/astronomy\/hubble-ngc-4571-10634.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">captured<\/a> a detailed image of NGC 4571 as part of an observing program that combined data from leading observatories like Hubble, the NASA\/ESA\/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, and the Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new image released today adds data from a program that seeks to understand how dust affects our observations of young stars deeply embedded within their natal clouds,\u201d the astronomers said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This image taken with the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope provides a detailed new look at the star-studded spiral&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6797,1745,26627,85,46,3442,66691,141,26630,31664],"class_list":{"0":"post-100819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-esa","9":"tag-galaxy","10":"tag-hubble","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-nasa","14":"tag-ngc-4571","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-spiral-galaxy","17":"tag-star-formation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}