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Science 7 January 2005:
Vol. 307. no. 5706, pp. 66 - 67
DOI: 10.1126/science.307.5706.66
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Disks of Destruction

Robert Irion

Exploding white dwarfs are a key yardstick of the cosmos, but how does gas spiraling onto their surfaces make these stellar corpses blow up?

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