ALERT! ” The Brightest Nova in Generations Is Coming Soon to Your Backyard!”
On 17 August 2024 (Saturday) , 9:30 p.m. Philippine Standard Time (17 August 2024 9:30 a.m. EDT), Dr. Brad Schaefer, Professor Emeritus of Astronomy & Astrophysics at Louisiana State University will give an online talk on the recurrent nova T Coronae Borealis which is expected to explode any time now.
Abstract: The recurrent nova T Coronae Borealis (T CrB) is expected to explode any night now, sometime in the upcoming few months. For a few days, this cosmic explosion will be easily visible as one of the brighter stars up in the sky, and can be seen by anyone who steps out under a dark and clear night sky. This will be the brightest nova in the sky for the last 78 years, indeed with that previous brightest nova being T CrB itself during its 1946 eruption.
Dr. Brad Schaefer is a Professor Emeritus of Astronomy & Astrophysics at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1983.
Brad has a wide range of interests throughout astrophysics, including Gamma-Ray Bursts, supernovae, supernova remnants, supernova progenitors, historical records of supernovae, novae, recurrent novae, superflare stars, low-mass X-ray binaries, eclipsing binaries, Nereid, Pluto, Kuiper Belt Objects, sunspot counts, and archaeoastronomy.
Brad is a member of the Supernova Cosmology Project that co-discovered the acceleration of the Universe and Dark Energy.
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