classical nova

C46248
concept

A classical nova is a sudden, dramatic brightening of a white dwarf star in a binary system caused by a thermonuclear runaway in accreted hydrogen on its surface.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
classical nova canonical 3

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: classical nova
Generated description
A classical nova is a sudden, dramatic brightening of a white dwarf star in a binary system caused by a thermonuclear runaway in accreted hydrogen on its surface.

Instances (3)

Instance Via concept surface
GK Persei
Nova Persei 1901
Nova Cygni 1886