{"id":275615,"date":"2025-11-21T15:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/275615\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T15:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:15:07","slug":"hubble-seeks-clusters-in-lost-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/275615\/","title":{"rendered":"Hubble Seeks Clusters in \u2018Lost Galaxy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s NASA\/ESA <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/hubble\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hubble Space Telescope<\/a> image features the spiral galaxy NGC 4535, which is situated about 50 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo (the Maiden). Through a small telescope, this galaxy appears extremely faint, giving it the nickname \u2018Lost Galaxy\u2019. With a mirror spanning nearly eight feet (2.4 meters) across and its location above Earth\u2019s light-obscuring atmosphere, Hubble can easily observe dim galaxies like NGC 4535 and pick out features like its massive spiral arms and central bar of stars.<\/p>\n<p>This image features NGC 4535\u2019s young star clusters, which dot the galaxy\u2019s spiral arms. Glowing-pink clouds surround many of these bright-blue star groupings. These clouds, called H II (\u2018H-two\u2019) regions, are a sign that the galaxy is home to especially young, hot, and massive stars that blaze with high-energy radiation. Such massive stars shake up their surroundings by heating their birth clouds with powerful stellar winds, eventually exploding as supernovae.<\/p>\n<p>The image incorporates data from an observing program designed to catalog roughly 50,000 H II regions in nearby star-forming galaxies like NGC 4535. Hubble released a previous image of <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/missions\/hubble\/hubble-takes-portrait-of-the-a-lost-galaxy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NGC 4535 in 2021<\/a>. Both the 2021 image and this new image incorporate observations from the <a href=\"https:\/\/phangs.stsci.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">PHANGS observing program<\/a>, which seeks to understand the connections between young stars and cold gas. Today\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.<\/p>\n<p>Media Contact:<\/p>\n<p>Claire Andreoli\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/missions\/hubble\/hubble-seeks-clusters-in-lost-galaxy\/mailto:claire.andreoli@nasa.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">claire.andreoli@nasa.gov<\/a>)<br \/>NASA&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/goddard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Goddard Space Flight Center<\/a>,\u00a0Greenbelt, MD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy NGC 4535, which is situated about 50 million&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[11745,12161,21870,13721,22408,90,4676,416,18466,61811,1588,13722,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-275615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-astrophysics","9":"tag-astrophysics-division","10":"tag-galaxies","11":"tag-goddard-space-flight-center","12":"tag-hubble-space-telescope","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-science-mission-directorate","15":"tag-space","16":"tag-spiral-galaxies","17":"tag-star-clusters","18":"tag-stars","19":"tag-the-universe","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}