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Full write-up here: theastroenthusiast.com/ngc-4490-from-hubble/

Another galaxy from the Hubble Legacy ExtraGalactic UV Survey (LEGUS). This rather messy assortment of star formation is said to be a barred spiral galaxy, but I confess I have a hard time seeing it even in widefield view. It kinda looks like all bar and no spiral to me. I wonder what it looked like before its interaction with NGC 4485? From our vantage point in spacetime, we’ll never know, but right now we can see the interaction has caused such a ruckus of star formation that the whole thing appears quite blue and full of young stars and pinkish clouds of ionized hydrogen. These hot-burning stars also explode relatively quickly, making this galaxy host to many supernovas.


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Date Taken on 17 August 2022, 08:40
Source NGC 4490 - A galaxy in six bands of light
Author William Ostling
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