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Image title	This four-panel graphic illustrates how the binary-star system V Hydrae is launching balls of plasma into space. Panel 1 shows the two stars orbiting each other. One of the stars is nearing the end of its life and has swelled in size, becoming a red giant. In panel 2, the smaller star's orbit carries the star into the red giant's expanded atmosphere. As the star moves through the atmosphere, it gobbles up material from the red giant, which settles into a disk around the star. The buildup of material reaches a tipping point and is eventually ejected as blobs of hot plasma along the star's spin axis, shown in panel 3. This ejection process is repeated every eight years, the time it takes for the orbiting star to make another pass through the bloated red giant's envelope, shown in panel 4. Link: NASA Press release
Credit/Provider	NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI)
Source	ESA/Hubble
Short title	Artist's illustration of scenario for plasma ejections from V Hydrae
Usage terms	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Date and time of data generation	16:53, 11 October 2016
Keywords	V Hydrae
Contact information	http://www.spacetelescope.org Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2 Garching bei München, , D-85748 Germany
IIM version	4