Contact Binary Star Envelopes
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Imagine two stars orbiting each other as they age. Toward the end of their lives their surfaces and atmospheres will grow and begin to merge into a common envelope. Explore how the age and gravitational potential of the system changes the shapes of the stars. You can explore the shape of the merged system by using the gravitational potential control which ignores the individual identities of the stars.
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Contributed by: Jeff Bryant (March 2011)
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"Contact Binary Star Envelopes"
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Published: March 7 2011