https://briankoberlein.com/2015/03/23/teapot-star/ Brian Koberlein Fri, 22 Feb 2019 18:22:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1 https://briankoberlein.com/2015/03/23/teapot-star/#comment-2127 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 14:23:07 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=4629#comment-2127 I’ve read that Type Ia Supernovae occur in a similar situation, where a white dwarf accumulates material from a companion star, and when the mass of the white dwarf exceeds 1.4 solar masses, it goes supernova. If a thermonuclear explosion is triggered causing a nova (before it can reach the critical mass), how does a white dwarf manage to reach the 1.4 solar mass limit to go supernova?

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