Media tagged with "accretion disk"

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Accretion Disk

Description: An artist's conception of the accretion disk in the binary star system WZ Sge. This system contains an accreting white dwarf star with a larger companion.

Credit: P. Marenfeld/NOAO/AURA/NSF

Type: Image

Keywords: accretion disk, white dwarf, type 1a supernova, image

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Accretion Disk 2

Description: An artist's conception of the accretion disk in the binary star system WZ Sge using data from Kitt Peak National Observatory and the Spitzer Space Telescope. This system contains an accreting white dwarf star with a larger companion.