Rare Appearance of Two Novas at Once Illuminates the Southern Sky. Here's How to Get a Chance to See It

Rare Appearance of Two Novas at Once Illuminates the Southern Sky. Here's How to Get a Chance to See It

The "new stars" are best seen from the Southern Hemisphere, but people have spotted them from the United States by looking near the southern horizon

'An exceedingly rare event': See a pair of nova explosions shining in the southern sky this week.

Two bright nova explosions are currently visible to the naked eye in the southern night sky. Here's how to see them.

They Spotted a Flash in the Night Sky – It Turned Out to Be a Rare Exploding Star

A dramatic cosmic event, a rare dwarf nova that suddenly brightened by a factor of 2,500, has been discovered with the help of everyday skywatchers through the Kilonova Seekers project. Often described as playing astronomical “spot the difference,” Kilonova Seekers invites the public to scan and compare new telescope images of the night sky with [...]

Environmental News Network - Public Take the Lead in Discovery of New Exploding Star

As part of the citizen astronomy project, ‘Kilonova Seekers’, University of Warwick astronomers and public volunteers have made their first major discovery - an exploding star system found in real time - a discovery that would not have been possible without the diligent work of the public.

Stargazers Rejoice: Two Novae Illuminate the Sky in a Once-in-a-Generation Event

Right now, an extraordinary and rare event is happening in the southern sky: two novae, or stellar explosions, can be seen with the naked eye. This remarkable phenomenon has only been recorded once before, back in 1936. Novae, which occur when a white dwarf star pulls matter from its companion star and causes a violent explosion, are typically too faint to be visible without a telescope. But for a brief period, stargazers in the Southern Hemisph…