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Looks like when I light the barbecue.
Hmmm. Bombs, dwarves, nova (means “no go” in Spanish). Very triggering article. Too many microaggressions. Total rewrite!
could not be any more poorly written. Right from the beginning one is left wondering what they are talking about.
Cataclysmic binary systems occur when a star like our Sun -- a yellow dwarf -- is being cannibalized by a white dwarf, a dead star.Hmmm. Dead stars in binary with yellow dwarfs. Like Jupiter or Saturn w.r.t. Sol? Conceivably whites in hibernation? Oh well, I'm gonna die anyway.
This kind of supernova is apparently the standard candle that was used to calculate the expansion rate of the Universe. The Hydrogen builds up until a critical point is reached where the Hydrogen is hot and dense enough for fusion to occur. That initial explosion sets up a shock wave which detonates the remaining hydrogen. From what I’ve read it blasts the star into small bits.
