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Description	About 20 km. around, the density of a neutron star attracts matter from a companion star. Inward flowing material causes x-ray bursts and also causes the star's rotation to speed up. Turkish: Yaklaşık 20 km. çapındaki bir nötron yıldızı yoğunluğundan kaynaklanan kütleçekimiyle eş yıldızındaki maddeyi kendine çekiyor. Eşten pulsara akan gazlar x-ışını patlamalarına neden oluyor. - canlandırma
Date	7 September 2013, 15:12:50
Source	http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2003/0702pulsarspeed.html, http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010100/a010144/index.html
Author	Dana Berry/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Other versions	File:Millisecond pulsar and accretion disk - NASA animation (hi-res).ogv File:Millisecond pulsar and accretion disk - NASA animation (low res).ogv See also other versions on NASA pages

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