[SunkenCiv]

Urania's Mirror - Hercules and Corona Borealis -- The star T CrB flares up every 80 years. A document from 1217 could help confirm its regularity. A 1217 account of a mysterious light in the constellation Corona Borealis may have described a recurrent nova.

Image credit: Library of Congress/Wikimedia

[ComputerGuy]

Interesting. T CrB sounds like a rapper’s name.

[Doctor Congo]

I did not see it in the article, Just how bright will this nova be?

[Ezekiel]

Scientists will be ready for the nova's next expected flare in late 2024. When it comes, modern astronomers will add it to a centuries-long list of past records.

Nova and November both hypothetically trace back to

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/n%C3%A9wos

And a corona is a crown.

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Remember, remember, the 5th of November...

It was a red-letter date in the history of science. Time travel invented.

[Conan the Librarian]

I hope to be looking for it. Been waiting for a few years for this to happen.

Just have to find a dark sky to set up under.