Hubble Glimpses a Star-Forming Factory – NASA Science
![Hubble Glimpses a Star-Forming Factory – NASA Science](https://i1.wp.com/science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/hubble-ugc9684-potw2419a.jpg?w=640&w=640&resize=640,459&ssl=1)
Remarkably, the 2020 supernova isn’t the only one that astronomers have seen in this galaxy – UGC 9684 has hosted four supernova-like events since 2006, putting it up there with the most active supernova-producing galaxies. It turns out that UGC 9684 is a quite active star-forming galaxy, calculated as producing one solar mass worth of stars every few years! The most massive of these stars are short-lived, a few million years, and end their days as supernova explosions. This high level of star formation makes UGC 9684 a veritable supernova factory, and a galaxy to watch for astronomers hoping to examine these exceptional events.