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#TCorBor magnitude 10.0
Source AAVSO, Observer: HBB on 2025-06-26
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Coming soon! — Nova explosion visible to the naked eye expected any day now
Sometime between May and September, a #WhiteDwarf is expected to go thermonuclear.
Jacek Krywko - 5/21/2024,
"When you look at the northern sky, you can follow the arm of the Big Dipper as it arcs around toward the bright star called Arcturus. Roughly in the middle of that arc, you'll find the Northern Crown constellation, which looks a bit like a smiley face. Sometime between now and September, if you look to the left-hand side of the Northern Crown, what will look like a new star will shine for five days or so.
"This star system is called T. Coronae Borealis, also known as the #BlazeStar, and most of the time, it is way too dim to be visible to the naked eye. But once roughly every 80 years, a violent thermonuclear explosion makes it over 10,000 times brighter. The last time it happened was in 1946, so now it’s our turn to see it."
#SpaceWeather #Astronomy #DarkSkies #Skywatching #CelestialEvents
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CW: Huge star explosion to appear in sky in once-in-a-lifetime event
> The binary star system in the constellation Corona Borealis — “northern crown” — is normally too dim to see with the naked eye.
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> But every 80 years or so, exchanges between its two stars, which are locked in a deadly embrace, spark a runaway nuclear explosion.
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-huge-star-explosion-sky-lifetime.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T_Coronae_Borealis
#astronomy
#binaryStar
#binarySystem
#BlazeStar
#CoronaBorealis
#recurrentNova
#TCoronaeBorealis
#TCrB