Central region of NGC 6872 closeup with point sources denoted as in Figure 5 superposed. (Left) 3.6 μm IRAC image of NGC 6872's central region showing a stellar bar just south of X-ray sources 7 and 10 (see Table 6) and strongly correlated with three star clusters. (Right) The 8 μm nonstellar image of the same region showing the stream of emission (originating just south of a star cluster in the ring and north of X-ray sources 7 and 10) winding south to the bar and then along the bar to the nucleus. The image uses square root scaling. Bright regions have been overexposed to highlight the faint nonstellar stream.