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Hubble Glimpses a Star-Forming Factory [1]

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Date: 2024-05

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.

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[1] Url: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-glimpses-a-star-forming-factory/

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