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Credit & Copyright: Ajay Talwar
(The World at Night)
Explanation:
It quickly went from obscurity to one of the brighter stars in Sagittarius -- but
it's fading.
Named
Nova
Sagittarii 2015 No. 2, the
stellar explosion is the
brightest
nova visible from Earth in
over a year.
The featured image was captured four days ago from
Ranikhet in the
Indian
Himalayas.
Several stars in western
Sagittarius make an
asterism
known as the
Teapot, and the nova, indicated by the arrow,
now appears like a new emblem on the side of the
pot.
As of last night,
Nova Sag has faded from
brighter
than visual
magnitude 5 to the
edge of unaided visibility.
Even so, the nova should still be easily
findable
with binoculars in dark skies before sunrise over the next week.
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Publications with keywords: nova - Sagittarius
Publications with words: nova - Sagittarius
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