Bob Stephens, of Rancho Cucamonga, is among the many amateur astronomers who are eagerly awaiting the appearance of the Blaze Star, a nova that occurs every 80 years in the Corona Borealis constellation. Steve Flanders, outreach coordinator for Palomar Observatory, shows the observatory’s Gattini-IR telescope, which Caltech professor Mansi Kasliwal’s team will use to observe the Blaze star explosion. This …
Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Prof Brown said: “Every 80 years or so it gathers enough material so that it ignites in …
Move over, solar eclipse: Scientists predict a once-in-a-lifetime nova explosion in the coming months Nasa The nova T Coronae Borealis explodes about once every 80 years. While the world's attention has been focused on the total solar eclipse that will occur later this spring, the distant Corona Borealis binary system – which contains one dead white dwarf star and one …
