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English: This illustration shows a newly discovered dwarf nova system, in which a white dwarf star is pulling material off a brown dwarf companion. The material collects into an accretion disk until reaching a tipping point, causing it to suddenly increase in brightness. Using archival Kepler data, a team observed a previously unseen, and unexplained, gradual intensification followed by a super-outburst in which the system brightened by a factor of 1,600 over less than a day.
Date 24 January 2020 (upload date)
Source Illustration of Dwarf Nova System
Author NASA and L. Hustak
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This illustration shows a newly discovered dwarf nova system, in which a white dwarf star is pulling material off a brown dwarf companion.

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