DG Tau stellar disc and jets. Artwork showing a close-up of a disc (orange) and inner portions of the jets (white) associated with the young star DG Tau (yellow,centre). This star is located in the Taurus star-forming region in the constellation of Taurus,and is around 456 light years from Earth. The jets are the first double-sided X-ray jets ever detected from a young star. The counter jet (upper left) has higher energy X-rays than the forward jet (lower right). It is thought that the imbalance,observed by the Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO),is due to the disk around DG Tau absorbing some of the energy of the X-rays | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / Weiss, M. / NASA / CXC |
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