This article was originally published on mentalfloss.com as How to See the Super-Bright Star Nova Set to Explode Any Minute.

This recurrent nova, located approximately 3,000 light ... appearing as an extra-bright star just outside the crescent, close to a star called Epsilon CrB, the constellation’s fifth brightest.

Astronomers are anticipating a spectacular event in the night sky in 2025: the nova explosion of T Coronae Borealis (T CrB), ...

Artwork of the binary star system RS Ophiuchi: Matter flows from the red giant onto the white dwarf. The newly added stellar envelopes explode in a bright nova about every 15 years.

On Friday, Mercury will join Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in the planetary alignment. However, not all ...

T Coronae Borealis (T CrB), popularly known as the "Blaze Star," is surely on the verge of a rare and dramatic brightening.