X-ray Emitting Binaries
nustar_nustar200515a May 22nd, 2020
Credit: Renee Ludlum
Artists concept of a neutron star (the bright white star) surrounded by an accretion disk of material that it has stripped of its low-mass companion star (top left). This material shines in X-rays as it falls onto the neutron star during "outbursts" of extremely bright X-ray activity.
Provider: Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array
Image Source: https://nustar.caltech.edu/image/nustar200515a
Curator: NuSTAR: Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, CA
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- nustar200515a
- Subject Category
- B.3.6.1
- Subject Name
- Credits
- Renee Ludlum
- Release Date
- 2020-05-22
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://nustar.caltech.edu/image/nustar200515a
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- Artwork
- Image Quality
- Good
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- Equinox
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- NuSTAR: Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array
- URL
- http://www.nustar.caltech.edu
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- Pasadena
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- CA
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- Publisher ID
- nustar
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- Resource URL
- https://nustar.caltech.edu/system/avm_image_sqls/binaries/118/original/LMXB.jpg
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- 2022-02-18T23:24:50Z
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- 1.2
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