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Hubble’s image of NGC 4535 shows a densely populated face-on barred spiral galaxy anchored by its central region, which begins as a small yellow dot. The galaxy’s bar extends as a yellow haze from there, forming a roughly vertical shape at the center that stretches across most of the frame. Two prominent spiral arms made of stars, gas, and dust connect to the bar, creating thin arcs that start from the top and around to the right, and in an arc that curves from the bottom right up and to the left, forming an elongated S shape. The spiral arms rotate clockwise and are made of dark brown, filamentary dust lanes and bright blue star clusters, brightest at the edges. There are prominent orange dots toward the bottom left and top center, and a bright, larger foreground star with four diffraction spikes at bottom right. Tiny black triangles at bottom left, top right, and bottom right corners reflect where there is no data.