Look at pictures of the same galaxy taken a few years apart

NGC 4571 is located in a constellation whose name translates to Coma Berenice.It is named after

an Egyptian queen who lived more than 2,200 years ago. 

The spiral pattern is anemic and is observed in a fairly dense stellar disk. Perhaps the galaxy is a transitional link from spiral to lenticular galaxies.

Latest image of NGC 4571

The photograph shows the characteristic structure of the galaxy: it has a bright central part and spiral arms with numerous stellar inclusions. The image of the galaxy was obtained as a result of the work of a program that combines the Hubble observatories and ALMA. 

Spiral galaxies like NGC 4571 appear very large and majestic, but they are far from beingthe largest structures known to astronomers.

NGC 4571 is part of the Virgo Cluster, which contains more than 1,000 galaxies.The cluster itself is part of another, even larger supercluster of Virgo: it containseven our Milky Way galaxy. 

Previously, astronomers in different years took pictures of this galaxy:

Snapshot for 2020Snapshot for 2019Snapshot from 2015

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