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Hi Adrian, yup you didn't say supernova my mistake, I have them on the brain I think. A Nova is from much smaller outbursts on a White Dwarf star. The White Dwarf accretes matter from a giant hydrogen rich companion star, but not enough to exceed 1.4 solar mass that would cause the white dwarf to explode as a type 1a supernova.
PeterM.
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