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A red giant star and white dwarf orbit each other in this animation of a nova similar to T Coronae Borealis. NASA/Goddard ...
Astronomers from the Czech Republic and Argentina have employed the Gemini South telescope to observe a yellow supergiant ...
The nearby T Coronae Borealis system could still explode any day now, but calculations suggest the next best chance for fireworks is later this year.
Kohoutek 4-55 is a dazzling planetary nebula captured in vivid color by the Hubble Space Telescope. Formed by the dramatic death of a giant star, this cosmic cloud glows with energized gases and ...
Vibrations echoing through giant stars are offering unexpected insights into their internal structures and evolutionary paths ...
We expect that [T Coronae Borealis] will erupt any night now, any month now,” Bradley Schaefer, a Louisiana State University ...
As gravity draws them together, the white dwarf heats up and absorbs "a stream of material" from the red giant ... causes the star to brighten by more than 1,000 times, creating the illusion of a 'new ...
Jean Schneider of the Paris Observatory predicts that T Coronae Borealis will explode between 2025 and 2027. Potential dates ...