This is definitely something you don’t see every day: NASA captured a video of a binary star system exploding into space – yeah, actual footage!
To make things even juicier, the white dwarf then continues to suck hydrogen, and when the accretion reaches critical mass, the process repeats, which means NASA will continue to keep their eyes on this particular juicy spot.
The video was captured by NASA’s STEREO-B spacecraft as it kept its camera on that region of space from April 20 to 24, 2012.

Via @Sungrazercomets. Picture via Wikipedia