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Blaze Star that’s 3,000 lightyears away will soon explode — and you’ll get to see it from Earth: ‘Once-in-a-lifetime event’


“We expect that [T Coronae Borealis] will erupt any night now, any month now,” Bradley Schaefer, a Louisiana State University astronomer, said.

NASA“We expect that [T Coronae Borealis] will erupt any night now, any month now,” Bradley Schaefer, a Louisiana State University astronomer and Blaze Star specialist told Annie Jennemann of Hearst. “white dwarf,” and “an ancient red giant slowly being stripped of hydrogen by the relentless gravitational pull of its hungry neighbor,” according to NASA. Then trace a straight line from the two brightest stars in the Northern Hemisphere — Arcturus and Vega — which will lead them to the Hercules constellation and the Corona Borealis, where the dazzling Blaze will be most visible.

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