V462 Lupi

V462 Lupi, also known as Nova Lupi 2025, is a bright nova in the constellation Lupus discovered by All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae on 12 June 2025. At the time of its discovery, it had an apparent visual magnitude of 8.7. It was classified as a classical nova on 14 June 2025.
By 18 June 2025, it had brightened to magnitude 5.7, making it just visible to the naked eye. The peak brightness, magnitude 5.5, was reached on 20 June 2025, and around 10 July 2025 it became too faint to see with the naked eye even under ideal conditions.
All novae are binary stars, with matter from a "donor" star accreting onto a white dwarf. In the case of V462 Lupi, the orbital period is days.