The view of the starry firmament at night is simply overwhelming: and anyone observing the thousands and thousands of twinkling objects over the coming months could be forgiven for thinking that the cosmos has been enriched by one more star. But this is not the case: As NASA has announced, it will be the result of a brute natural spectacle that will once again show us the elemental forces of the universe. But what is it all about? Why will T Coronae Borealis shine a thousand times brighter than before? Will the celestial body plunge its surroundings into disaster in a devastating explosion? Or is the breathtaking magic of space not always linked to chaos and destruction after all?