(January 16, 2017 at 9:24 am)Alex K Wrote: iirc neither, it's too light. It will get bloatet, violently shed some outer hulls and settle to a white dwarf. It won't classify as a supernova, and it can't produce a nova.
IIRC, it would need another star on a binary system to produce a nova. Not sure if our sun matches also the mass criteria.