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Cryptic
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Vitamin B2
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Capsule
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Objective
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Autoclave
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Fever
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Megacycle
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Oceanic mixed layer
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Ribozyme
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Nodule
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PDA
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Tidal range
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Ductule
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Summer solstice
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Bayer name
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ESTEC
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Endive
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Visual field
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Endeavour
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Empress tree
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Apricot
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Albumin
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Ariel
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Pycnocline
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Ocellus
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Equinox
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Adenosine
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Perigranitic
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Black hole
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Shared resource radio network
X-ray binary
An X-ray binary system is a system formed from an "ordinary" star orbiting around a neutron star. Thanks to its intense gravitational field, the neutron star cannibalises its accompanying star, forming an accretion disk around it.
Artist's impression of an X-ray binary system accompanied by a continuous jet of matter.
(Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC))
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