What's a Nova? Inside the Chaos of Erupting and Exploding Stars¶
NASA Science. (2026). What's a Nova? Inside the Chaos of Erupting and Exploding Stars.
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- A nova is a transient stellar outburst in which a white dwarf in a close binary system suddenly brightens and then fades over weeks or months.
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NASA's explainer defines a nova as an outburst in a binary containing a white dwarf, and gives a duration of days to months, but never states the fading stage.
“In short, a nova is an outburst in a binary system, or system with two stars that closely orbit one another. In all known novae, one of the stars in the system is a white dwarf, which is the leftover core of a star like our Sun after it runs out of fuel.”
- A nova is a transient stellar outburst in which a white dwarf in a close binary system suddenly brightens and then fades over weeks or months.
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