NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
This week we’re specializing in what’s at present a darkish patch within the sky, however gained’t be for for much longer. That’s as a result of a “new” star is predicted to seem within the evening sky over the following few months.
Of course, the star isn’t really new – it has been round for billions of years. What’s new is that it is going to be seen to the bare eye, quickly, whereas present process an explosive occasion known as a nova.
The object in query, known as T Coronae Borealis – or the a lot catchier “blaze star” – is definitely a binary star system made up of…