V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon), another red nova captured on camera in 2002. (Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI))
[UPDATE: Sorry, folks. The paper we report on here forecasting a visible supernova in 2022 has been corrected as of September 7, 2018. A typo in the dataset they used led to a false prediction that we would see the collision of a binary star in 2022. There will be no supernova that year as far as we know. We may witness the event sometime in the future, though, so stay tuned!]
In five years, you could have a front row seat to an explosive event that occurred 1,700 years ago. And all you'll have to do is look skyward. Larry Molnar, an astronomer at Michigan's Calvin College has been studying the behavior of an odd object located in the Cygnus constellation, named KIC 9832227. Discovered a bit over a ...
