Stars that go "Boom" (Recurrently)

At the CAS meeting of July 13, 2024, Perkins Observatory Director, Don Stevens, gave a detailed lecture that explained why certain stars go novae. It featured extensive background on the physics of really dense stars, what quantum mechanics and the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle has to do with it, and a demonstration using a laser.
This talk was in anticipation of the expected brightening of the recurrent nova T Coronae Borealis that is predicted to suddenly brighten some time this year.
The title of the talk is: "Recurrent Novae: The 'Old Faithfuls' of the Cosmos." After the initial CAS business meeting the talk begins at...
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