The place where the explosion will take place is 3 thousand light years away from the Earth. The American space agency NASA says that this star explodes every 79-80 years. This explosion will give amateur astronomers a chance to capture a special view of space.
Bill Cook, head of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office (MEO), has also expressed his opinion about this possible explosion. He said that we do not know much about its timing. But whenever it happens, it will be something that you will remember.
The star that is about to explode is bound in a binary system. Such a system consists of a massive star and a white dwarf star. In the current case, the massive star is dumping its material onto the surface of the white dwarf star because the two are orbiting very close to each other.
The dumping of material is increasing the temperature of the dwarf star. According to the report, when this happens, a thermonuclear explosion will begin in it. Eventually, the white dwarf star will blow all the material into space and become very bright, hundreds of times brighter than before.
The first explosion was detected in the year 1217
Humans first detected an explosion in T Coronae Borealis in the year 1217. Since then, two more explosions have been observed in it. The last explosion was seen in the year 1946. Scientists believe that this star explodes once every 79 or 80 years. Movement was seen in the star in March last year, due to which it was speculated that it is going to explode once again soon.