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in lamen's terms probably.

A supernova Type Ia occurs between two companion stars usually a large star and small companion white dwarf. What happens is that the dwarf star accretes (takes away) stellar material from the larger star. After this happens for a long time the amount of material becomes more and more dense (the star will actually become smaller in radius) and hotter and hotter until the conditions are correct for a fusion reaction to occur. The process is much more complicated than my explanation, but basically after fusion occurs...boom.

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