New cataclysmic variable star discovered

Wednesday, August 19, 2020 - 08:31 in Astronomy & Space

Using NASA's Kepler spacecraft, astronomers have detected a new bright transient event. After further analysis, the newly found transient source turned out to be a cataclysmic variable (CV) star. The finding is detailed in a paper published August 10 on the arXiv pre-print server.

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