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get ready to see a star explode sometime
between now and September a bright light
will appear in the sky and only be
visible to the naked eye for a few days
near the Hercules and Bo botus
constellations the light will actually
be a massive explosion called a Nova in
a star system named T Corona Borealis
tcrb is made up of two dying Stars a red
giant and white dwarf that orbit each
other closely as the red giant expands
and cools gas from its outer layers is
pulled onto the nearby White dwarf as
this gas piles up on the small dense
star its interior gets hotter and hotter
until it triggers a massive explosion a
Nova and that's what we'll see in the
night sky a Nova is different from a
supernova which is an explosion so
enormous that the dying star expels its
outer layers out into the universe
usually leaving behind a neutron star or
a black hole TCB explodes about every 80
years the last time it was visible was
in 1946 but reports go as far back as
now scientists are observing a similar
pattern a change in the star system's
brightness which is a Harbinger For an
upcoming explosion and scientists
expected to explode again about 80 years
from now
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