<ul><li>Starburst spiral NGC 4536 is bright with blue clusters of star formation and pink clumps of ionized hydrogen.</li><li>NGC 4536 is an intermediate galaxy, a hybrid of a barred spiral and an unbarred spiral.</li><li>The galaxy is a starburst galaxy with high rates of star formation, giving rise to a ring of star formation around the nucleus.</li><li>NGC 4536 is located 50 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo and was discovered in 1784.</li></ul>

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