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Astronomers have spotted another never-before-seen "nova" blaze to life in the night sky. This may be the first time that ...
The "new stars" are best seen from the Southern Hemisphere, but people have spotted them from the United States by looking ...
Less than two weeks later, on June 25, reports began to circulate of a second nova blossoming in the southern night sky, this time in the constellation Vela. This nova — later designated V572 Velorum ...
Over time, these stars became known as Wolf-Rayet stars (Charles Wolf was a French astronomer, and helium was first detected ...