Symbiotic Star Blows Bubbles into Space
Panel 1: A pulsating red giant star and a compact, hot white dwarf star orbit each other.
Panel 2: The red giant sheds much of its outer layers in a stellar wind. The white dwarf helps concentrate the wind along a thin equatorial plane. The white dwarf accretes some of this escaping gas forming a disk around the itself.
Credit:
NASA & ESA
About the Image
NASA press release
NASA caption
NASA caption
| Id: | opo9932d |
| Type: | Artwork |
| Release date: | 24 August 1999, 15:00 |
| Size: | 515 x 573 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Symbiotic star |
| Type: | • Unspecified : Star : Evolutionary Stage : Red Giant • Unspecified : Star : Evolutionary Stage : White Dwarf • Unspecified : Star : Grouping : Binary • Illustration Images |
