Never seen an exploding star? This year, you’ll have your chance

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Never seen an exploding star? This year, you’ll have your chance

Space enthusiasts, thank your lucky stars.Astronomers expect that this year you'll be able to see the explosion of a star system in our Milky Way galaxy by simply looking up at the sky.Yes, we know you just spent all that time figuring out how to catch the solar eclipse.But the upcoming nova of the T Coronae Borealis star system is far less common, occurring roughly once every 80 years. A nova takes place when a small star suddenly and dramatica…