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It is about 3,000 light-years from Earth, but it can be witnessed with the naked eye. //
NASA predicts a nova will occur sometime this summer, about 3,000 light-years from Earth, but it can be witnessed with the naked eye.
The nova reoccurs once every 80 years. //
The nova should happen in a dark spot among the seven stars of Corona Borealis, known as the Northern Crown.
The dark spot contains “two stars that are bound to and in orbit around each other,” known as T Coronae Borealis or T CrB. NASA nicknamed it the Blaze Star: