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Thinking of the Blaze Star, a recurrent nova coming soon, I wonder how many historic moments were marked by such events.
Soon, a 'new' star will shine for 3 days before vanishing. This nova repeats every ~80 years, and recent observations show it's imminent.
#BlazeStar #ZombieStar #RecurrentNova
#TCoronaeBorealis
#NorthernCrown
#News #History
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I keep checking to see if #TCoronaeBorealis has gone nova yet, but it seems like it hasn't.
Could happen any day between now and September. I'm not sure what the most definitive source is, or who will report the fastest when it happens.
Seems like a good opportunity for a single purpose website. Like maybe: hasTCoronaeBorealisGoneNovaYet.com
perhaps? Pretty small audience probably.
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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
