A Debris Disk Around An Unusual Class is a piece of digital artwork by Stocktrek Images which was uploaded on December 7th, 2011.
A Debris Disk Around An Unusual Class
This artist concept shows a debris disk that has been observed around an unusual class of interacting binary stars. The type of cataclysmic variable... more
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A Debris Disk Around An Unusual Class
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Stocktrek Images
Medium
Digital Art - Illustration
Description
This artist concept shows a debris disk that has been observed around an unusual class of interacting binary stars. The type of cataclysmic variable system being studied consists of a highly magnetic white dwarf star (a dead remnant star formed from the core of a star like our Sun when it exhausts the available fuel to support nuclear fusion) and a very low-mass, cool object similar to a brown dwarf. The two objects orbit so close, about the distance from Earth to the Moon, that they make a complete revolution about each other in only 80-90 minutes. The white dwarf is Earth-sized but weighs about 60 percent of the mass of the Sun, while the companion star is Jupiter-sized but has about 40-50 times the mass of Jupiter.
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December 7th, 2011
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