juliensimon/

galactic-novae-schaefer

Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble

Part of a dataset collection on Hugging Face.

Schaefer's compendium of Galactic classical novae — VizieR J/MNRAS/517/6150 from Schaefer, B.E. (2022), MNRAS 517, 6150, 'The distances to Galactic classical novae'. Classical novae are thermonuclear runaways on the surface of a white dwarf accreting hydrogen from a close binary companion, producing brightening of 8-15 magnitudes… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/juliensimon/galactic-novae-schaefer.