Chris Wrede, Michigan State University (IMAGE)

Michigan State University

Chris Wrede, Michigan State University

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MSU's Chris Wrede explains what it's like to view microscopic aspects of a classical nova, a massive stellar explosion on the surface of a white dwarf star (about as big as Earth), in a laboratory rather than from afar via a telescope.

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