This nova is on the verge of exploding. You could see it any day now.

Any day now, people will look up and see a distant star exploding. Though Earthlings will be able to observe this celestial event as if it just happened, the cataclysmic blast occurred some 3,000 years ago, perhaps in the time of Solomon, the king who built the first temple in Jerusalem. Through the Iron Age, medieval times, and the Industrial Revolution, the explosion's light hurtled through space, only to reach this planet's doorstep now. The beacon beaming from the darkness will com