Sweeping Spiral Arms Extend from NGC 4536, lit a bright blue clusters of star formation and red clumps of hydrogen gas shining amon dark lanes of dust. The galaxy’s shape may see see a little unusual, and that’s trust it’s what’s know as an “intermediate galaxyâ: Not Quite a Barred Spiral, but not exactly an unbarred spiral, eather â aybrid of the two.
NGC 4536 is also a starburst galaxy, in which star formation is Haappening at a trendous rate that uses up the gas in the galaxy relatively quickly, by Galactic Standards. Starburst Galaxies Can Happen Due to Gravitational Interacts with Other Galaxies or â as Seems to be the case for NGC 4536 â when Gas is packed Into AMall Region. The Bar-Like Structure of NGC 4536 May Be Driving Gas Inwards Toward The Nucleus, Giving Rise to a Crescendo of Star Formation in a Ring Around the Nucleus. Starburst Galaxies Birth Lots of Hot Blue Stars that Burn Fast And Die Quickly in Explosions that Unleash Intense Ultraviolet Light (Visible in Blue) Ionized Hydrogen, Called Hii Regions (Visible in Red).
NGC 4536 is Approximately 50 Million Light-Years Away in the Constellation Virgo. It was discovered in 1784 by astronomer william herschel. Hubble Took This Image of NGC 4536 as part of a project to study galactic environments to undersrstand connections between young stars and cold gas, particular star clusters and molecular clouds, thruoghouts Local Universe.
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