‘Best meteor shower of year’ peaks this week. You may see 100 per hour — and fireballs
naked-eye nova visible -- " RS Oph, a white dwarf in the constellation Ophiuchus. Yesterday it happened again. On Aug. 8th, the brightness of the tiny star increased 600-fold, from magnitude +12 to +5 " -- quote from spaceweather dot com
Mysterious dimming of bright star Betelgeuse possibly explained