The high-speed jet seems to have been caused by magnetic forces and is shaping a disk of gas and dust around the star MWC 349A.
, has become the subject of intense study in optical, infrared, and radio wavelengths. And yet nothing like this jet had been seen emerging from the star before.
"A maser is like a naturally occurring laser," Prasad said."It's an area in outer space that emits a really bright kind of light. We can see this light and trace it back to where it came from, bringing us one step closer to figuring out what's really going on." "We used masers generated by hydrogen to probe the physical and dynamic structures in the gas surrounding MWC 349A and revealed a flattened gas disk with a diameter of 50 AU [1 AU is approximately 93 million miles the distance between the sun and the Earth] approximately the size of the Solar System, confirming the near-horizontal disk structure of the star," project principal investigator and CfA senior astrophysicist Qizhou Zhang, said.
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