What researchers are calling a "Once-in-a-lifetime event," is a nova, or explosion, between two suns 3,000 lightyears away.

T Coronae Borealis (T CrB), known as the “Blaze Star,” is on the verge of a rare and dramatic brightening. This once-in-a-lifetime explosion is about to happen any day now. This recurrent nova, ...

T Coronae Borealis (T CrB), also known as the Blaze Star, is a binary star system located 3,000 light-years from Earth. It periodically explodes in a recurring nova every 79 years or so, and it’s due ...

With a recurrent nova explosion, a very rare event, it's worth finding its patch of sky now in the night sky so you know where to look — and are more easily impressed — when it briefly becomes ...