Nov 18, 2024, 08:50 PM IST
This environment is far from calm. Powerful ultraviolet radiation and relentless stellar winds have sculpted a vast cavity in the surrounding gas and dust, revealing an unobstructed view of the cluster nestled within.
Located in the Virgo constellation (The Virgin), approximately 50 million light-years from Earth, the galaxy NGC 4535 presents a stunning sight that mesmerizes observers.
This galaxy, often called the "Black Eye" or "Evil Eye" galaxy, gets its name from the dark dust band that spans one side of its radiant core.
The vibrant blue region in the galaxy on the left is a gathering of clusters and associations of young, hot blue stars, shaped by tidal forces from gravitational interactions.
In 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope conducted a groundbreaking experiment by pointing at a dark, apparently empty patch of sky near the Big Dipper—about the size of a pinhead held at arm's length—for 10 continuous days.
This image of Caldwell 69 combines ultraviolet, visible, and infrared observations captured by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 during 2019 and 2020.
NGC 6355 is a globular cluster positioned in the inner regions of the Milky Way, less than 50,000 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Ophiuchus.
This 100-million-year-old globular cluster resides in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way renowned as a nursery for billions of stars.
Source: NASA