Artist's impression of a cataclysmic variable
Copyright: M.A.Garlick 1998. This picture is not to be used by anyone without the express permission of the author.
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With its red dwarf secondary star in the foreground, and matter being shred off into the accretion
disk around the white dwarf primary.
Picture credit and copyright M.A.Garlick 1998. This picture is not to be used by anyone without the express permission of the author.
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