8 matches found for search term
blue giant, exact phrase.
Blues for a Dead World
Here you have an impression of a high-mass x-ray binary (HMXB), in which a blue giant (right) orbits a compact object such as a
neutron star or black hole. The blue giant has a
powerful stellar wind, shown radiating outwards here. Some of this materi...
Keywords:
x-ray binary, landscape, blue giant, star, black
hole, neutron star, stellar win...
Cygnus X-1
... , because the blue star is not sufficiently distorted. Instead, the accretion
disc is created by material sucked in from the blue
giant's immense stellar wind. ...
Keywords:
x-ray binary, Cygnus X-1, accretion, accretion disc, black hole, blue giant, HMX...
High-Mass X-Ray Binary
... sometimes a black hole. The giant star is distorted owing to its proximity to its
highly compact partner. Gas flows from the blue
giant towards the black hole/neutron star and forms a gaseous pancake called
an accretion disc. As it spirals to its doo ...
Keywords:
x-ray binary, accretion, accretion disc, black hole, blue
giant, HMXB, stellar w...
Stars Compared
Stars come in many sizes and colours, as this diagram for my ...
Keywords:
star, red giant, blue giant, white dwarf, red dwarf,
Sun, Proxima...
Be X-Ray Binary
Here is a different kind of x-ray binary. In the foreground (top) is a hot star
called a Be star. It spins so quickly that it is surrounded by a circumstellar disc
of matter, flung off via centrifugal force. The Be star is in orbit around a tiny and
...
Keywords:
x-ray binary, accretion, accretion disc, black hole, blue
giant, stellar wind, s...
Planets and Stars Compared
This animation compares the sizes of all the planets in the Solar System, starting
with the smallest, Mercury, and increasing in size up until Jupiter. It then goes on
comparing the Sun to other, larger stars. The concentric circles which appear towa...
Keywords:
... Uranus, Neptune, Sun, star, red giant, blue
giant, animation, ice giant, gas gi ...
Stellar Bow Shock
In some x-ray binary systems matter is transferred from one star to the other via the
donor star's stellar wind. The stellar wind, like the Sun's solar wind, is a steady
stream of particles that blasts away from the star's surface and out into space....
Keywords:
HMXB, x-ray binary, landscape, accretion, blue
giant, stellar wind, binary star,...
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