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Magnetic Fields Sculpt Narrow Jets From Dying Star.

06/01/2006 07:00AM

Magnetic Fields Sculpt Narrow Jets From Dying Star.

Molecules spewed outward from a dying star are confined into narrow jets by a tightly-wound magnetic field, according to astronomers who used the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) radio telescope to study an old star about 8,500 light-years from Earth. <b>NOTE: French, German, Italian, and Spanish translations follow...</b>


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