04302+2247
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- okay, what's interesting about this is, check out the zoomed
in infrared image from Padgett et al. (Astronomical Journal,
vol. 117, p. 1490,1999):
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- This zooms in by about a factor of 30 more than the upper
image. The dark band in the middle is probably a flared disk
from which planets are forming. Usually, outflows are directed
perpendicular to this disk. But in the upper image, we see jet
emission in a very different direction. What is going on here?
Is the jet emission coming from a different source? Is a binary
at the center causing precession of the jet into very different
directions? We don't know. The jet actually wobbles a bit but
on a small scale compared to the direction of the nebula points
to.