San Joaquin residents could opt to travel 60 mph for the next 28 billion years to see a once in a lifetime event: A star exploding.
Or they could just look up from their backyards.
What will appear to be a new star in the sky will actually be a nova — a super-bright star explosion — and is likely to be visible with the naked eye for the first time since 1946.
Known as the Blaze Star, T Coronae Borealis (T CrB) will likely blow up by the end of September, according to NASA .
What will look like one star is actually two stars orbiting each other in a stellar cosmic dance.
Gravity from an Earth-size white dwarf ― the remains of a dead star with a mass similar to Earth’s sun ― is pulling hydrogen off of its neighbor, an ancient red giant. But soon, the red giant will move behind the white dwarf and cause a massive explosion, a phenomenon visible without a telescope from Earth for the first time in 80 years, NASA reported.
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