AaS! 41: How do (regular) novas work?

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Paul M. Sutter

Astrophysics, Science, Cosmos, Holes, Black, Astronomy, Natural Sciences, Universe, Cosmology, Space, Physics

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🗓️ 4 October 2016

⏱️ 34 minutes

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How do regular non-super-novas work? What’s the connection to white dwarves? Where do they happen and why should we care? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!

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0:00.0	You know what time it is.
0:12.9	It's time for Ask a Space Man.
0:14.8	I'm your host, Paul Sutter.
0:15.9	You've got questions and I've got all the answers.
0:19.2	You know how this show works, but let's review a new.
0:23.0	Go online, Twitter, Facebook, hashtag, ask a spaceman, all one word, all one hashtag.
0:29.9	Fire away. Send me questions. I'll pick them up to answer.
0:33.1	You can also send questions to Ask a Spaceman at gmail.com. You can also visit Ask a Spaceman.com.
0:41.5	That's the website that has all the episodes in the entire history. Glorious history of
0:48.0	Ask a Space Man has all the questions, has places to comment on each episode. You contact
0:53.2	form where you can send me emails. You can do whatever you want. Uh, we have one simple, oh, oh, YouTube. I can't forget
0:59.7	YouTube. Go to YouTube.com slash C slash Paul Matt Sutter. Paul Matt Sart is also my handle on
1:05.7	Twitter and Facebook because that's my name. So it made a convenient handle. Do all that.
1:10.2	Every single thing.
1:11.4	Do it all.
1:11.8	Now, we have a simple goal with this show.
1:15.9	Complete knowledge of time and space.
1:18.3	And on the road to today's goal,
1:22.5	a couple questions here from Twitter at Desron 94 asked, what is a Nova? How does it compare to a supernova?
1:33.4	Relatedly, Tim R via email asked white dwarves, mass, novas, what's the deal? Excellent question.
1:42.2	See, I love these little questions like this because there are all
1:47.7	these fascinating little corners of our universe. I mean, it's a big place. There's lots of stuff
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