'Zombie Star' could light up the sky for the first time in 80 years, NASA says

TOLEDO, OH. (WTVG/Gray News) – A “zombie star” is expected to rise from the dead and light up the night sky in the coming months. However. scientists don’t know exactly when.

T Coronae Borealis, also known as the ‘Blaze star’, It is expected to explode at any moment.

This will create an explosion of light that will illuminate a dead binary star system for the first time in 80 years. NASA.

In 1946, astronomers watched as a new star suddenly appeared in the night sky, only to disappear again a few days later.

“When explosions happen in the air, we usually don’t know when they will happen,” says Dr. Elizabeth Hays of NASA. “We have an idea of this one because we saw the light of it about 80 years ago.”

They are called zombie stars because the stars themselves have reached the end of their life cycle, but they feed on a companion star in their binary star system.

When this happens, the star suddenly appears in a part of the sky that we normally don’t see.

It will be in about the same part of the western sky where we saw the comet a few weeks ago, and it will be about as bright as the stars in the Big Dipper.

But it hasn’t happened yet.

“We thought this could happen as early as April this year. Or it could be a few years in the future. So it’s quite exciting, we can build this expectation,” said Dr. Hays. “We just don’t know how quickly that material will accumulate, and we don’t know exactly when it will reach that magical point that sets it off.”