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DescriptionDiagram of a Cataclysmic Variable.png	English: A diagram of a Cataclysmic Variable, showing the normal star, the accretion disk, and the white dwarf. The hot spot is where matter from the normal star meets the accretion disk.
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Other versions	See Image:Accretion Disk Binary System.png for the image without the titles.

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