The once-in-a-lifetime explosion of T Coronae Borealis, also known as the "Blaze Star" is still pending -- but the event will ...

Blue supergiants are so extreme that scientists ... "We simulated the mergers of evolved giant stars with their smaller stellar companions over a wide range of parameters, taking into account ...

Follow the arc of its handle to Arcturus, the fourth brightest star in the sky, shining with an orange hue in the Boötes constellation above the east. Next, locate Vega, a brilliant blue-white ...

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 ...

T CrB is a symbiotic binary, a vampire system in which a white dwarf is siphoning material from a red giant star. A white dwarf is the dense, compact core remnant of a once sun-like star ...

The T CrB isn't one star. It comprises a white dwarf and an ancient red giant star. The latter is 1.12 times the mass of our Sun and orbits the white dwarf, which is exerting gravitational pull on ...