Star time - 12 million seconds

The image above - produced by Dr Tony Bird an astronomer at the University of Southampton - is part of a lenticular animation which represents Tony's 'artist's impression' of two stars observed by the INTEGRAL Satellite, called 'the High-Mass X-ray Binary IGR J17391-3021', The larger object is a supergiant star orbited by a neutron star. The Supergiant emits a dense wind which has a stable disk-like structure at the equator. Although the source was discovered in 1997 by the XTE telescope, this picture is inspired by 12 million seconds of hard X-ray observations of the the system with the INTEGRAL telescope. Lenticular imaging hasn't been used to display astronomical data before - so I'm introducing it into the Physics and Astronomy department.