NGC 4535, or the "Lost Galaxy," is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 50 million light-years distant in the Virgo constellation. It is part of the immense Virgo Cluster, which harbors nearly 2,000 ...

A recent image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a gorgeous spiral galaxy bursting with new star formation.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Z. Levay In this photo of the "Lost Galaxy," NGC 4535, the blue stretching out along the spirals signals younger stars while the yellow in the center denotes older stars.

The delicate sheets and intricate filaments are debris from the cataclysmic death of a massive star that once lived in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.