A red giant star and white dwarf orbit each other in this animation of a nova similar to T Coronae Borealis. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Astronomers have been watching a small constellation ...

The nova is ignited when a "vampirific" white dwarf steals too much matter from a companion star. A new set of predictions for the so-called "Blaze Star," T Corona Borealis suggests the star might ...

Scientists have announced that a dim star in a constellation easily visible after dark from the Northern Hemisphere may be on the verge of exploding. The binary star system, called T Corona ...

Nova explosions occur in semi-detached binary systems containing a cool late-type star and a white dwarf. "A hot white dwarf star, about the size of the Earth but having mass comparable with that ...