Credit & Copyright: Ajay Talwar   
(The World at Night)   
 
Explanation:
It quickly went from obscurity to one of the brighter stars in Sagittarius -- but  
it's fading.   
  
Named   
Nova  
Sagittarii 2015 No. 2, the   
stellar explosion is the  
brightest   
nova visible from Earth in   
over a year.   
  
The featured image was captured four days ago from   
Ranikhet in the   
Indian   
Himalayas.   
  
Several stars in western   
Sagittarius make an   
asterism  
known as the   
Teapot, and the nova, indicated by the arrow,   
now appears like a new emblem on the side of the   
pot.   
  
As of last night,   
Nova Sag has faded from   
brighter  
than visual   
magnitude 5 to the  
edge of unaided visibility.  
  
Even so, the nova should still be easily   
findable  
with binoculars in dark skies before sunrise over the next week.  
  
  
    
 Gallery:   
Solar  
Eclipse 
  
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