Observing a dip in the light curve of the Blaze Star (T Coronae Borealis, or T CrB) in 2023, astronomer Jean Schneider from the Paris Observatory had predicted that the recurrent nova would explode ...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected an unusually hot and luminous cosmic explosion from when the universe ...
Astronomers may have discovered one of the clearest examples yet of a rare "pair-instability" supernova. It is a catastrophic explosion thought to completely destroy some of the most massive stars in ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. For decades, astronomers and stargazers have been waiting ...
In March 2026, the Einstein Probe detected a brief flash of soft X-rays emitted from a galaxy about 500 million light-years away. The flash, dubbed EP260321a, immediately triggered a worldwide ...
You're about to have the chance to see a once-in-a-lifetime star explosion. Scientists are watching a system about 3,000 light-years away known as T Coronae Borealis, or the "Blaze Star." It ...