x-ray star
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Related to x-ray star: LMXB, X-ray burst
x-ray star
[′eks ‚rā ‚stär] (astrophysics)
A source of x-rays from outside the solar system; examples are the point x-ray sources Scorpius X-1, Cygnus X-2, and the Crab x-ray source.
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