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Accreting Neutron Star

Caption: Neutron star accreting matter from a red giant star. The red giant (on the upper right) is expanding and dumping material onto the neutron star. This material forms a disk and then finally falls to the neutron star surface.

Credit: Tony Piro, U.C. Berkeley

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