In what’s being billed as a once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event, a star in the Corona Borealis constellation could explode ...

Stargazers watched the skies with bated breath on Thursday night in hopes that T Coronae Borealis, a system consisting of a hot, red giant star and a cool, white dwarf star about 3,000 light-years ...

The red giant star is slowly being stripped of its hydrogen by the strong gravitational pull of its companion, the white dwarf, as the two are interlocked in a dangerous orbital dance. The ...

However you pronounce it, its unexpected dimming draws even more attention to this red supergiant variable star in Orion ... "the armpit of the giant." It's one of the largest stars visible ...

This blast originates from a binary star system made up of a massive red giant orbiting an ultra-dense white dwarf star about the same size as Earth. As the pair swing about each other ...

A red giant star and white dwarf orbit each other in this animation of a nova similar to T Coronae Borealis. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Astronomers have been watching a small constellation ...

An artist's impression of a symbiotic, recurrent nova similar to T Corona Borealis, with an accretion disk of matter stolen from a red giant circling ... so-called "blaze star," T Corona Borealis ...

It involves a red giant and white dwarf binary system located 3,000 light-years away. It will be a spectacular sight. Source: Space.com The long-awaited explosion of the Blaze Star, or T Coronae ...