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
About the Object
| Name: | Symbiotic star |
| Type: | Unspecified : Star : Evolutionary Stage : Red Giant Unspecified : Star : Evolutionary Stage : White Dwarf Unspecified : Star : Grouping : Binary |
| Category: | Stars |
