When people think of a star exploding, they think that’s it. The star is gone forever. Well, a little binary system 3,000 light years away called T Coronae Borealis (also referred to as the ‘Blaze Star’ and ‘T CrB’) explodes roughly every 80 years. This system has both a white dwarf and a red giant. The white dwarf’s gravitational pull is strong enough to continuously siphon off hydrogen from its significantly older red giant neighbor, resulting in the buildup
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