Nova explosion date updated – Enséñame de Ciencia

You’ve probably heard this year that we’ll soon see a nova explode in our skies thousands of light years from Earth, but as the timeline gets shorter, here’s an update on the dates the event could happen, according to NASA.

The Universe, with its vast sea of ​​darkness and objects of colossal size, from time to time puts before our eyes events that usually do not happen often, events so large-scale and violent that they can be seen from billions of light years away.

This year 2024, we have witnessed some of the most anticipated astronomical events that have left the entire scientific community speechless.

However, we are still waiting for one of the most incredible events predicted by science, an event that science believes occurs every 80 years and is so large that we will be able to see it with our own eyes in the night sky of Earth, an event as bright as the star itself.

We are talking about a stellar explosion, the explosion of a new star located in the constellation Corona Borealis of the Milky Way. Of course, we are talking about T Coronae Borealis, which is located about 3 thousand light years from Earth.

The explosion was announced earlier this year by the most famous space agency of the time, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, also known by its English acronym NASA.

This event is caused by the interaction of a binary star system in which a white dwarf and a red giant are constantly interacting in an exchange of material, with the white dwarf continually absorbing material from its partner until it reaches its limit, thereby causing a thermonuclear reaction, an explosion of colossal proportions that can be seen even from our sky.

The explosion will cause a flash of material and gases that can be seen from Earth as a very bright star, an event known as a nova.

At the start of the year, space agencies had no clear idea of ​​when the event would occur, but as the months and research pass, that time frame gets closer.

What was previously said will happen in February and October, today NASA says the event will take place between June and September.a much narrower period of time, so we must be very careful during these months, targeting the constellation Hercules and Corona Borealis.

In the same way, let us remember that a nova, as we have already mentioned, is an exchange of matter between two stars, which sooner or later causes a violent explosion of unprecedented brightness, as a result of which, in our opinion, all these materials and gases are quickly ejected. Spanish Astronomical Society.

So now you know, keep your eyes on the sky, we are about to have the joy of seeing an incredibly incredible event in the earthly sky.