X-Ray Millisecond Pulsar (IMAGE)

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

X-Ray Millisecond Pulsar

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This is an artist's impression of an accreting X-ray millisecond pulsar. The flowing material from the companion star forms a disk around the neutron star which is truncated at the edge of the pulsar magnetosphere.

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NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center / Dana Berry

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