Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Just days after a nova appeared in the night sky, another ...

A red giant star and white dwarf orbit each other in this animation by NASA and the Goddard Flight Center of a nova similar to T Coronae Borealis. The red giant is a large sphere in shades of red, ...

Two new stars, or nova eruptions, have been resolved in unprecedented detail by six optical telescopes operating in unison as an interferometer. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...