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Nova Scorpii 1437

Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2017 8:52 am
by JP Nougayrede
A Nature paper reports that the "re-discovery of the binary star system that created the Nova Scorpii AD 1437 stellar outburst shows that it is now a dwarf nova"
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v5 ... 23644.html

There is a very nice comment paper (News and Views) on this by Steve Shore:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v5 ... 8526a.html