{"id":191043,"date":"2024-06-11T22:24:08","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T03:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/once-in-a-lifetime-explosion-will-bring-a-new-star-to-the-night-sky"},"modified":"2024-06-11T22:24:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T03:24:08","slug":"once-in-a-lifetime-explosion-will-bring-a-new-star-to-the-night-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/once-in-a-lifetime-explosion-will-bring-a-new-star-to-the-night-sky","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Once-in-a-lifetime\u2019 explosion will bring a new star to the night sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/once-in-a-lifetime-explosion-will-bring-a-new-star-to-the-night-sky.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers are expecting a \u201cnew star\u201d to appear in the night sky anytime between now and September in a celestial event that has been years in the making, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/centers-and-facilities\/marshall\/nasa-global-astronomers-await-rare-nova-explosion\/\" target=\"_blank\">NASA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a once-in-a-lifetime event that will create a lot of new astronomers out there, giving young people a cosmic event they can observe for themselves, ask their own questions, and collect their own data,\u201d said Dr. Rebekah Hounsell, an assistant research scientist specializing in nova events at NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, in a statement. \u201cIt\u2019ll fuel the next generation of scientists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The expected brightening event, known as a nova, will occur in the Milky Way\u2019s Corona Borealis, or Northern Crown constellation, which is located between the Bo\u00f6tes and Hercules constellations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers are expecting a \u201cnew star\u201d to appear in the night sky anytime between now and September in a celestial event that has been years in the making, according to NASA. \u201cIt\u2019s a once-in-a-lifetime event that will create a lot of new astronomers out there, giving young people a cosmic event they can observe for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191043","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=191043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}