NASA announces ‘unique’ space explosion this summer

lThe American agency made a somewhat unusual announcement, but it will be one of the events of this summer for astronomy lovers. If in our country these are the tears of San Lorenzo, the popular showers of shooting stars in mid-August.the ones that make us look at the sky on summer nightsNASA wanted to give us long teeth and made an announcement that this summer we are going to you need to watch the sky very carefully.

He announced that there would be an intergalactic phenomenon that rarely occurs – a nova. That is, an explosion that occurs due to the interaction of two stars and which on Earth we can see as a small flash of light at some point in the night sky. Although this is NASA, it is very difficult to predict a specific date when the event will occur, but it has been given. that this date will be between June and September of this year,

which, from a spatial time perspective, is the same as if we were talking about seconds or minutes of our “real” time.

Something that happens once every 100 years

This will be a unique moment for the current inhabitants of our planet, since the last time this happened was in 1946. This phenomenon is caused by a star called a white dwarf and a red giant, which, Together they are called T Coronae Borealis.

which also has a much more common name, Flaming Star.

Rebekah Hounsell, research scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and event specialist nova, indicated that what will happen in the coming weeks, “a once in a lifetime event that will create many new astronomersoffering young people a space event that they can observe for themselves, ask questions and collect their own data.”

But the main thing for earthly inhabitants is to know how to decipher this event in the sky in order to see it. To do this, you need to identify two stars that shine very brightly in the northern hemisphere, Arcturus and Vega, and draw a straight line from one to the other. Right in the middle are Hercules and Corona Nord. At this moment, you will be able to see the eruption, which will be visible to the human eye for only a week. “There are multiple repeating novae with short cycles; it is usually impossible to see a repeat explosion within a person’s lifetime, and it is even rarer to see an outbreak that is so relatively close to our own system,”

– concluded the NASA expert.