Novas: Pouring Gas on a Fire

When one star dumps pure fuel on another, a runaway thermonuclear blast can be touched off. And astronomers see this happen quite frequently!

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• space
• astronomy
• thermonuclear
• explosion
• astronomers
• stars
• galaxies
• supernova
• nova
• blast
• fuel

[maniacswordsman]

Gods version of playing with matches lol.

[lollyKDK]

whoa thats neat

[tomgeorgejr]

I think she should do her eyebrows.

[elritchie]

=D hahaha

[ArtypNk]

This is a good stuff for all the "Nibiru is coming" people. New apocalypse scenario: Nibiru comes, and sucks our sun dry.

[Presidentjh]

stupid white dwarf.

just a goddamn mooch.

[demonsacrifice]

there was a st:tng episode about this... actually, i think its the first episode in season 3 where dr. nubbs builds the egg to view this phoenominon

[timotheophany]

lol, god.

[urquiza78]

The physical clock of matter on this scale is massive. We in our timescale watch events like this unfold in almost a millienth of a millienth of a second in comparison to a stars timescale.

kinda doggy year, human year ideaology, except on a much larger scale lol.

[urquiza78]

I would like to suggest that maybe if u look to the white dwarf and see it as densely cooled gas or in laymeans terms, A kind of firelighter. Like the makeup of petrol and other similar volatile products, polygonally spherical; allowing large surface areas with persistant edges small enough to allow small amounts of friction to react. However with nothing near, nothing happens when something is(neighbouring star)its like the heat of a match eventually it will trigger.

[FreePizza007]

oops just wok up, did I miss somthing.

[yankeesjtc]

So boring. Why waste your time making a movie about a star?