Shown is this Chandra space telescope X-ray image is the binary star system Sirius AB. The image is artificially colored black for cold regions, pink hues for mid-temperature regions, and white for hot regions. The largest white region in the center of the image is Sirius B, a white dwarf, whereas the white region to the upper right is from the location of Sirius A, a star like the Sun but twice as massive. The pink rays emanating from Sirius B are an artifact of the image processing and are thus not real.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap001006.html

Editor: Patrick Joiner, UCF Interdisciplinary Studies, Class of 2018
Senior Editor: M.M. Montgomery, Ph.D, UCF Physics