Astronomer predicts red nova explosion to light up the sky in 2022

Astronomer predicts red nova explosion to light up the sky in 2022 Grand Rapids, Mich. (UPI) Jan 9, 2017 - Lawrence Molnar, a professor of astronomy and physics at Calvin College, has crunched the numbers on KIC 9832227, a contact binary star system. According to his math, the two stars will collide and explode in 2022, generating a red nova. The light generated by the explosion will register at a magnitude 2 - as bright as Polaris, the North Star. "It's a one-in-a-million chance tha ... more

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