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The Rapid Burster
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The Rapid Burster

NASA / JPL · 2017-01-31 · photograph (digital archive)

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These four images show an artist's impression of gas accreting onto the neutron star in the binary system MXB 1730-335, also known as the "Rapid Burster." In such a binary system, the gravitational pull of the dense neutron star is stripping gas away from its stellar companion (a low-mass star, not shown in these images). The gas forms an accretion disk and spirals towards the neutron star.

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Credit lineThe Rapid Burster. NASA/JPL, 2017-01-31. Public domain. ID: PIA21418.
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