The nearby T Coronae Borealis system could still explode any day now, but calculations suggest the next best chance for fireworks is later this year.
Stargazers watched the skies with bated breath on Thursday night in hopes that T Coronae Borealis, a system consisting of a hot, red giant star and a cool, white dwarf star about 3,000 light-years ...
This image features a deep field view of the Cassiopeia constellation immersed in the glow of ionized hydrogen gas, where the ...
A red giant star and white dwarf orbit each other in this animation of a nova similar to T Coronae Borealis. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Astronomers have been watching a small constellation ...
A faint star in a constellation visible from the Northern Hemisphere after dark may explode on Thursday in what's going to be ...
T CrB is a symbiotic binary, a vampire system in which a white dwarf is siphoning material from a red giant star. A white dwarf is the dense, compact core remnant of a once sun-like star ...
T Corona Borealis (T CrB) is a captivating symbiotic binary system consisting of a white dwarf and a red giant star. The white dwarf, a compact remnant of a sun-like star, possesses a mass equal to ...