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What happens when stars collide?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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How Does a White Dwarf Gobble Up the Inner Layers?

When a white dwarf is part of a binary star system. It can gobble up some of the mass of the other star when it gets close enough. And then it has enough stuff in it to go super nova. That's right. We call this going john trevolta.

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