Sharmila Kuthunur is a Seattle-based science journalist covering astronomy, astrophysics and space exploration. Follow her on X @skuthunur.
in 20 years, our aurora fever is slowly dying down — but, if you are searching for an excuse to admire some cosmic marvels once again, this image of a faraway galaxy might be of interest.last week, you can see a bar cutting across the heart of the galaxy. Such bars, one of which exists in our own galaxy, can be likened to a funnel, pulling nearby matter into the center alurks.
UGC 9684 is actively birthing new stars every few years, but despite the frequency, even the most massive of its stars run out of fuel and explosively die in just a few million years, astronomers said in a, have erupted in this galaxy four times since 2006, a frequency that makes UGC 9684 among some of the most supernova-rich galaxies we know of.
; stars found in the former are 11.5 billion years old while those in the latter could be as old as the galaxy itself. Seeing the faraway galaxy UGC 9684 in this Hubble image, it is mind boggling that the telescope is hovering just above, circling our planet roughly 320 miles above the surface. We lost the capability to service the telescope with the retirement of thethe telescope will operate until at least the late 2020s, after which the space agency plans to facilitate a controlled re-entry of the telescope into the Pacific Ocean.
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