This artist’s concept depicts a smaller white dwarf star pulling material from a larger star, right, into an accretion disk. Scientists used NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarization Explorer) to study
This artist’s concept depicts a smaller white dwarf star pulling material from a larger star, right, into an accretion disk. Scientists used NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarization Explorer) to study
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Chemostratigraphic column of the WN2 drill core. δ15N and TOC data were from Chang et al. (2019). Orange shaded areas represent two photic anoxia intervals identified based on δ15N signatures
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