Open main menu
Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Incubator escapee wiki
Search
User menu
Talk
Dark mode
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
Nuclear fusion
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
=== White dwarfs === Carbon–oxygen [[white dwarfs]], which accrete matter either from an active stellar companion or white dwarf merger, approach the [[Chandrasekhar limit]] of 1.44 solar masses. Immediately prior, [[Carbon fusion|carbon burning]] fusion begins, destroying the Earth-sized dwarf within one second, in a [[Type Ia supernova]]. Much more rarely, helium white dwarfs may merge, which does not cause an explosion but begins [[helium burning]] in an extreme type of [[helium star]].
Edit summary
(Briefly describe your changes)
By publishing changes, you agree to the
Terms of Use
, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 License
and the
GFDL
. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)