Ever see a star explode? You're about to get a chance very soon
Briefly

Every clear night for the last three weeks, Bob Stephens has pointed his home telescope at the same two stars in hopes of witnessing one of the most violent events in the universe a nova explosion a hundred thousand times brighter than the sun.
It's just too costly for major observatories to keep their equipment focused on the same subject for months at a time, relying on amateur astronomers like Stephens to spot the explosion first.
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