Professor Lawrence Molnar and his team at Calvin College Michigan, on a very low budget , has found evidence indicating that this binary pair( KIC 9832227*) will merge in roughly five to six years time.
This event, they claim, will cause an outburst of light bright enough, that it may well become the brightest object in the night sky bar the Moon.
A lot of work is now being done on contact binaries..so a very interesting field for researchers ..and indeed for all of us.
There discussing this on CN but I thought it would be interesting to inform others on IIS.
https://futurism.com/exploding-binar...ight-sky-2022/
bigjoe.