A Rare ‘Guest Star’ Is About to Light Up the Night Sky.mp4

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Stars often fade away, after a supernova or some other mysterious cosmic event occurs. However, experts say that what is often called a “guest star” will be appearing in the night sky soon and you don’t want to miss it.

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00:00stars often fade away after a supernova or some other mysterious cosmic event occurs however

00:08experts say that what is often called a guest star will be appearing in the night sky soon and you

00:13don't want to miss it guest stars are stellar objects that will light up the sky briefly

00:18where there was previously no star the first one documented was seen on july 4 1054 by chinese

00:24astronomers that one lasted for 23 days and could even be seen during daytime astronomers recently

00:29detected a nova in the star system t corona borealis and later this year they predict it will cause one

00:35of the brightly shining phenomena nova similar to their supernova cousins are stellar explosions

00:40however they involve much lower mass stars they occur when hydrogen from a dying red dwarf accretes

00:45around its binary white dwarf counterparts when the hydrogen gets to a certain temperature it ignites

00:50causing a nova experts say we should expect the guest star to be visible sometime in the second

00:55half of 2024 though they're not sure 100 when they say it will not be nearly as impressive as the 1054

01:01first sighting of one of these events but for a few hours at least it will be the brightest star in the

01:06corona borealis constellation

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