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Gastric antrum
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ECC
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Comma
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Essential nutrient
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Levetiracetam
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Iron bloom
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Crab nebula
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Kodiak bear
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Ischaemia
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Keesom force
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Coprocessor
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New Horizons
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Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect
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EUCEB
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Scheelite
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Oligocene
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ONCFS
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Kelvin's postulate
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Voice synthesis
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Nematocyte
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Miranda
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Cork oak
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Tiagabine
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Columbia
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Maritime swamp
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American foulbrood
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Deep Space 2
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HDMI
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Canopy
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PAD
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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