Our ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week features the Lost Galaxy!
🔴 The spiral galaxy NGC 4535 is also known as the ‘Lost Galaxy’ because it is so faint when viewed through a small telescope. With its 2.4m mirror, however, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is well equipped for observing galaxies like this.
🔴 On full display are the young star clusters dotting its spiral arms. Many of the groupings of bright blue stars are enclosed by glowing pink clouds, a sign the galaxy is home to young, hot, massive stars 🌟 blazing with radiation!
🔴 Hubble has snapped NGC 4535 before, but this image incorporates new observations which capture the brilliant red glow of the nebulae encircling massive stars reaching the ends of their lives.
For more information check the link in bio.
📷 europeanspaceagency / hubbleesa & NASA , F. Belfiore, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team
#ESA #Hubble