Orbiting binary star simulation
This visualization of a binary star system illustrates how stars may share matter as they orbit their common center of mass. It shows the Roche lobe of the tidally distorted low-mass star, an accretion disk around a compact object, and the ejection of jets. The files from which this animation was made were created with binsim, See http://www.phys.lsu.edu/~rih/.
