Eine kosmische Explosion wird bei einem einmaligen Sternbeobachtungsereignis mit bloßem Auge sichtbar sein

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1. Sometime between now and September it will be visible in the northern hemisphere.

   Thank you for the post. This is awesome!

2. Damn so I just gotta look up a lot for the next couple months I guess

3. The first two known times was like 570 years apart and this is 237 years from the last time listed in the article.

   Only having two documented instances means we don’t know how variable this is.

   Have you noticed when they say most stars die. They only changed form.

   For example. Red giant to a white dwarf for example.

   The star didn’t die but did change form.

   So once you have enough mass of material you undergo fusion.

   In reality any material can become part of a star such as being part of the plasma and so everything is a star potentially. At least part of a star.

   So are meteors, comets, asteroids stars? Yes if you have enough of them including other gas and dust to collect enough mass of material in one spot.

   We are naming stages.

   White dwarf is often the next stage of a red giant star and so the star survived but a bit smaller in diameter with more mass because it’s compacted.

   Or we get those other star types. Neutron stars, pulsars ect.

   Jupiter didn’t grow large enough but this doesn’t mean in 200 billion years our solar system doesn’t collide with more gas and dust as we make orbits around our galaxy.

   Humans haven’t even been around once. Eventually we are on the opposite side of our galaxy.

4. Any second now

5. Prince of Darkness begins this way

6. And I quote:

   “A rare cosmic eruption is expected to occur in the Milky Way in the coming months…”

   Given it’s 3000ly away, the above statement is incorrect: It’s already happened.

7. As someone who lives in the northern hemisphere, the week that it last for will probably cloudy lol.

8. “In a related story, State Farm has canceled all homeowners policies in T Coronae Borealis.”

   “The Earth-based company, T Coronae Borealis’s largest insurer, cited soaring costs, the increasing risk of catastrophes like nova explosions and outdated regulations as reasons it won’t renew the policies on 3 billion houses and 4 billion apartments.”

9. Technically this event already occurred 3000 years ago, it just takes the light 3000 years to reach our pupils.

10. To see the position in the sky, locate Ursa Major (big frying pan looking thing in the northern sky, check the Alaska state flag for reference) then kind of follow the pan handle back to its tip then keep going a ways. You’ll pass over bright boi Arcturus and then you’ll reach the constellation in question.

11. So we just have to look up every night for the next few months? Knowing my luck I’d miss it