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This Star is About to Explode - Sixty Symbols
The Brief
- Dr Meghan Gray discusses T Coronae Borealis, also known as Blaze, which the video frames as about to explode.
- The description identifies T CrB as a recurrent nova.
- A linked paper covers the star's accretion history, Roche-lobe filling, orbital solution, and radiative modeling.
Why watch · It offers an expert discussion of a binary star system expected to produce a visible nova eruption.
- T Coronae Borealis
- recurrent nova
- Meghan Gray
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Dr Meghan Gray discusses the imminent explosion of T Coronae Borealis (the star also known as Blaze). Extra footage from this interview: https://youtu.be/oZfNuE8eCt8 More links and info below ↓ ↓ ↓ It's a recurrent nova. More Professor Meghan Gray: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcUY9vudNKBORQN625NgO3c4T82M6w2st T CrB: Overview of the accretion history, Roche-lobe filling, orbital solution, and radiative modeling: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/09/aa55917-25/aa55917-25.html Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sixtysymbols This project features scientists from The University of Nottingham http://bit.ly/NottsPhysics Sixty Symbols videos by Brady Haran http://www.bradyharanblog.com Brady's chemistry channel is Periodic Videos - https://www.youtube.com/periodicvideos And mathematics at Numberphile - https://www.youtube.com/numberphile