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Blue Giant Star
This classic space art example was commissioned for one of my recent books,
Keywords:
blue giant, star, landscape, exoplanet
Planet of a Double Star
In this image I imagine a rocky world in orbit around a pair of stars, one yellow like the Sun and one a harsh blue. This
image appeared in Universe: Journey into Deep Space, by Mike Goldsmith and myself.
Keywords:
binary star, star,
landscape, Earth-like
Algol Animation With Graph
This is an animation of Algol showing how the light from the system varies as a
function of the orbit. Check the graph at the top right. There is a slight reduction
of light when the bigger but dimmer star (yellow) is
behind the blue one, and a much ...
Keywords:
animation, binary, binary star, Algol, accretion,
Beta Persei, eclipsing binary,...
Algol
Algol, also known as Beta Persei in the constellation Perseus, is the prototype of a
class of interacting binary stars which differ from
cataclysmic binaries. It was the first eclipsing binary ever found. Viewed from
Earth, Algol varies its brightnes...
Keywords:
binary, binary star, Algol, accretion, Beta Persei,
eclipsing binary, star
Animation of a Cataclysmic Binary
This video shows an interacting binary star system
known as a cataclysmic variable (CV) or cataclysmic binary. The larger star is a red dwarf, a normal and very common star somewhat smaller, cooler and fainter than the Sun. It
is in orbit around a mu...
Keywords:
cataclysmic, accretion, accretion disc, red dwarf, white dwarf, star, binary sta...
Aurora Planet
This is the view from a planet in a close orbit around a magnetic flare star. These stars have
such gigantic episodes of magnetic activity that they must have huge starspots, some of which have actually been imaged. Life
on a nearby planet would be i...
Keywords:
flare, star, magnetic, starspot, landscape, aurora, exoplanet, planet
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...
Binary Sunset
In this image I imagine an Earth-like world in orbit around not a single star but a close binary. What beautiful sunsets could be
witnessed from this world. In the sky I have added a giant satellite, its night side
illuminated by cities, betraying in...
Keywords:
exoplanet, terrestrial planet, planet, water, ocean, binary star, star, satellit...
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...
Cataclysm VI
A cataclysmic binary is a close-binary star system
consisting of red dwarf (bottom) in orbit around a white dwarf. The proximity of the
latter and its powerful gravity distorts the red dwarf. It gas flows away from it and
plunges towards and around t...
Keywords:
cataclysmic, accretion, accretion disc, red dwarf, white dwarf, star, binary sta...