| A | B |
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| Accretion Disk | A swirling flat disk of stellar material moving around a white dwarf. |
| Carbon-Detonation Supernova | When a white dwarf gains too much mass and goes supernova. |
| Core-Collapse Supernova | The death and light that follow the ending of a high mass star. |
| Helium Capture | The Nucleosynthesis of elements by fusing helium to heavier elements because of a lower energy state. |
| Neutron Capture | The formation of nuclei heavier than iron by the absorption of neutrons. |
| Nova | When a white dwarf undergoes an explosion as a result of a rapid temporary increase in luminosity. |
| Standard Candles | Objects in space with a known absolute brightness, used to find distances of other stars. |
| Stellar Nucleosynthesis | The process which elements are formed with fusion within the stars. |
| Supernova Remnants | The glowing remains of a supernova explosion. |
| Type-I Supernova | A supernova with a star that is hydrogen poor. |
| Type-II Supernova | A supernova with a star that is hydrogen rich. |
