The stars are surrounded by diffraction spikes, which are the starburst-like radiating lines that appear around bright ...

Astronomers are closely monitoring the binary star system T Coronae Borealis (T CrB), anticipating a rare nova eruption that ...

The “Blaze Star” is a rare nova that could produce an explosion visible with the naked eye in the next few nights, located about 3,000 light years from Earth and part of the ...

Astronomers have long predicted that two orbiting white dwarfs are the cause of most type 1a supernova explosions. While the pair are in close orbit, the heavier of the two theoretically accumulates ...

This recurrent nova, located approximately 3,000 light-years away in the constellation ... Next, locate Vega, a brilliant blue-white star in the Lyra constellation, above north-east.

A red giant star and white dwarf orbit each other in this animation of a nova. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Unlike other astronomical events we can see, like a planet conjunction or a ...

When their end comes, the stars will explode in a blast making them around 200,000 times brighter than Jupiter does now.

T Corona Borealis is a binary star system around 3,000 light-years away in the constellation Corona Borealis, the “Northern Crown.” It consists of a white dwarf star (a star that’s exhausted ...

A faint star in a constellation visible from the Northern Hemisphere after dark may explode on Thursday in what's going to be a once in 80 years occurrence.