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qroqqa commented on the word recurrent nova
A white dwarf that keeps exploding as a nova as its companion feeds material to it. M31N 2008-12a has exploded roughly every year since it was discovered, so astronomers suspect it is now at the wafer-thin mint stage.
—See phys.org for more.
July 9, 2015