{"id":184994,"date":"2024-03-13T00:22:47","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T05:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/a-rare-nova-ignites-a-new-star-in-the-sky-this-year-heres-how-to-see-it"},"modified":"2024-03-13T00:22:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T05:22:47","slug":"a-rare-nova-ignites-a-new-star-in-the-sky-this-year-heres-how-to-see-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/a-rare-nova-ignites-a-new-star-in-the-sky-this-year-heres-how-to-see-it","title":{"rendered":"A rare nova ignites a \u2018new star\u2019 in the sky this year. Here\u2019s how to see it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-rare-nova-ignites-a-new-star-in-the-sky-this-year-heres-how-to-see-it.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A nova outburst visible to the naked eye is expected to decorate the night sky this year, offering a rare skywatching opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>The star system offering us this opportunity is known as T Coronae Borealis (T CrB). It\u2019s located some 3,000 light-years away from Earth and consists of a red giant star and a white dwarf that orbit each other. When the white dwarf steals enough stellar material from its red giant companion, it ignites a brief flash of nuclear fusion on its surface, triggering what is known as a nova outburst.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nova outburst visible to the naked eye is expected to decorate the night sky this year, offering a rare skywatching opportunity. The star system offering us this opportunity is known as T Coronae Borealis (T CrB). It\u2019s located some 3,000 light-years away from Earth and consists of a red giant star and a white [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}