Once-in-a-lifetime star explosion, visible from Earth, could happen any day now

[Admin]

Binary star system T Coronae Borealis (T CrB) is about to go nova any day now. The recurrent nova explodes approximately every 79 or 80 years.

Once-in-a-lifetime star explosion, visible from Earth, could happen any day now : Read more

 

[Helio]

The location is marked here as a small red circle....

T Coranae Borealis Blaze star — Postimages

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[Unclear Engineer]

What would be cool is a time lapse video of the star appearing. But, because we really don't know when that will happen, within at least months, it would be hard to assign a major telescope to keep looking at the location, waiting for it to happen. And, if it is not a space telescope, it might be on the wrong side of the planet when the star first kicks off its thermonuclear explosion.