File:Cygnus X-1.png
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Summary
An artists illustration of material being gravitationally sucked off a a blue supergiant variable star designated HDE 226868 onto a black hole known as Cygnus X-1.
The purpose of this version of the image (versus <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:800px-Cygnus_X-1.jpg&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="File:800px-Cygnus X-1.jpg (page does not exist)">file:800px-Cygnus_X-1.jpg</a>) is to increase the sharpness of reduced-size thumbnails in articles. Special techniques were used in Photoshop to retain extremely sharp stars in this version.
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| current | 18:22, 13 January 2017 | | 2,750 × 1,719 (2.79 MB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | An artists illustration of material being gravitationally sucked off a a blue supergiant variable star designated HDE 226868 onto a black hole known as Cygnus X-1.<p>The purpose of this version of the image (versus <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:800px-Cygnus_X-1.jpg&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="File:800px-Cygnus X-1.jpg (page does not exist)">file:800px-Cygnus_X-1.jpg</a>) is to increase the sharpness of reduced-size thumbnails in articles. Special techniques were used in Photoshop to retain extremely sharp stars in this version.</p> |
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