In spite of their violence, usually the amount of material ejected in novae is only about ​1⁄10,000 of a solar mass, quite small relative to the mass of the white dwarf.
Malia a súa violencia, a cantidade de material exectado nas novas é xeralmente só dun 1/10000 da masa solar, bastante pequena en relación coa masa da anana branca.