Nova explosion visible to the naked eye expected any day now
Nova explosion visible to the naked eye expected any day now
Sometime between May and September, a white dwarf is expected to go thermonuclear.
So sometime between now and September, the nighttime sky where I live will be cloudy for five days straight. Got it.
I can't even see stars when it isn't cloudy. Couldn't see any of the recent northern lights either.
Lucky. At leats you have a chance. Here sun hardly sets during that time. It's blue skies most of that time.
Sometime between now and September, if you look to the left-hand side of the Northern Crown, what will look like a new star will shine for five days or so.
Pretty cool if you own a telescope and are into astronomy, but not exactly solar flare levels of hype here. Don't wake up your SO and drag them out onto the lawn at 2am to show them this Nova.
Alternately do, and witness a cosmic event together.
Idk you do you
went outside for 15 minutes. no lights. eh. I just try to wrap my head around the scale of space. should invest in some automatic scope. they have ones you set on the roof and observe from the desktop. few thousand $$ installed
My entry point was 10x50 binoculars. There's a lot of faint fuzzy white blobs out there to see with them.
Anton Petrov's explanation of this situation
“Predictions in astronomy come in two flavors. One is super precise—like the eclipse is going to pass over the city of Houston at exactly 11:35 pm.”
I presume he means a total lunar eclipse, but I didn’t know that one can pass over a city. I think he meant an instead of pm?
Lunar eclipses have a range they're visible from just like solar eclipses do, but they tend to be much larger since it depends only on if the side of the moon being eclipsed is visible from a given location at the time
Its 2024, its gonna edge for a long time before popping.