Newsweek
The night sky might be about to gain a brand-new star thanks to a distant sun exploding violently.
This far-distant stellar system is situated around 3,000 light years away from Earth and is usually much too dim to be seen with the naked eye.
This year, however, T Coronae Borealis, or T CrB, is expected to explode for the first time since 1946, briefly shining brighter than the North Star Polaris, according to NASA. More
It’s 3000 light years away. So, did it explode 3000 years ago and I can see it now? Or do I have to wait 3000 years to see the explosion? Maybe I should just read the article…
Will I be able to see it from my grave??
Exploding star? Was Obama’s ISIS involved?
“CALPHURNIA
When beggars die there are no comets seen;
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.”
-Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar”, Act 2, scene 2
…what prince’s death may OUR heavens be foreshadowing, from which may be precipitated a civil war?
“As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood,
Disasters in the sun; and the moist star, Upon whose influence Neptune’s empire stands,
Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse.
And even the like precurse of feared events,
As harbingers preceding still the fates
And prologue to the omen coming on,
Have heaven and Earth together demonstrated
Unto our climatures and countrymen.”
-Shakespeare, “Hamlet”, Act 1, Scene 1
…the course of European history, and by extension our own, was forever changed by an omen in the skies of 1066.
https://www.nasa.gov/history/955-years-ago-halleys-comet-and-the-battle-of-hastings/
…One wonders what future history these current stellar events may be foretelling.
Reading the future in cosmic events was once in the province of primitives and charlatans, safely relegated to our uncomfortable past.
But then so too was polio,tuberculosis, and murdering people because the lomg-dead pedophile representative of a moon goddess told you it must be done, so here we are…
Exploding star?
Wasn’t there an article on Hollywood unemployment in a previous post.
I want to thank my lucky stars for the mooseslim scientists at NASA and their contribution to making my future brighter.
FTA, “briefly shining brighter than the North Star Polaris, according to NASA.”
Polaris isn’t a particularly bright star. If you want something noticeable, it needs to have the visual magnitude of Sirius, Arcturus, Antares, or Betelgeuse.
Hopefully, it will shine for about a week and it won’t be overcast ever you are looking up to see it. The nova will be better for your eyes than staring at the eclipse.
I discovered the first exploding star.