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A Bizarre Binary Star System

A Bizarre Binary Star System By Judith E Braffman-Miller

Cataclysmic variables are binary star systems that are usually composed of a type of superdense stellar corpse called a white dwarf and a normal star like our own Sun. They are small systems–and the entire cataclysmic variableis usually only about the same size as our own Earth-Moon system, with an orbital period of a very brief 1 to 10…