The night sky is so constant and unchanging that generations of navigators have set their course by the fixed arrangement of the stars. The 'blaze star' T Coronae Borealis is set to flare into life any day now, going from invisible to as bright as the North Star overnight in a spectacular nova. The blaze star will appear in a …
Sometime between now and September, a massive explosion 3,000 light years from Earth will flare up in the night sky, giving amateur astronomers a once-in-a-lifetime chance to witness this space oddity. The binary star system in the constellation Corona Borealis -- "northern crown" -- is normally too dim to see with the naked eye. Their size disparity is so huge …
