Multiple Choice
A nova is the result of which explosive situation?
A) mass transfer onto a white dwarf
B) helium burning in a degenerate stellar core
C) a white dwarf which exceeds the Chandrasekhar limit
D) the collision of members of a binary system
E) runaway nuclear reactions in the core
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