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Ever see a star explode? You’re about to get a chance very soon

A man stands in front of a window with a telescope
Bob Stephens is an amateur astronomer who mans a backyard telescope that he’s using to observe a star that is expected to explode within the next month. Astronomers are expecting a massive explosion a million times brighter than the sun on a nearby sun sometime before August. The explosion will be visible to the naked eye on Earth and enable new science. He is photographed next to an observation room containing a mounted Borg 101. 101mm F/6.3, telescope attached to a ZWO AsI174mm camera. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times/TNS)
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The eruption, which scientists say could happen any day now, has excited the interest of major observatories worldwide, and it promises to advance our understanding of turbulent binary star systems.

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