T Coronae Borealis (T CrB), a binary star system, will have a rare nova explosion visible to the naked eye for the first time ...

T Coronae Borealis, a star in the Northern Crown constellation, is about to explode in a nova. This happens once every 80 ...

In June, NASA predicted that the Blaze Star could explode before September. Another prediction came in October, when astronomers at the Paris Observatory predicted that the explosion would happen on ...

A rare nova explosion from T Coronae Borealis may be visible next week! Learn when and how to see this once-in-80-years celestial event in the night sky.

The American Association of Variable Star Observers anticipated a nova event in April 2024, but it didn't materialise. They also saw a decline in brightness in March and April 2023. T Corona ...

AI tools are transforming how we observe the world around us — and even the stars beyond. Recently, an international team proved that deep learning ...

By intense observation of a certain class of variable star, the cepheids, Leavitt discovered a direct correlation between the time it took a star to go from bright to dim to how bright it actually ...

Located some 1,400 light years away, GK Persei (also known as A 0327+43 or Nova Persei 1901) is a cataclysmic variable consisting of a magnetized white dwarf (WD) and a K2-type subgiant star with ...

Hubble had already used this knowledge in his 1924 discovery that the Andromeda nebula, containing a variable star, was more than 900,000 light years from Earth -- way beyond our own galaxy -- a ...