Bipolar Outflows
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Transcript: When a new star turns on in the center of a disk shaped cocoon of gas and dust material is blown out along the rotation axes at speeds that range from twenty kilometers per second all the way up to two hundred kilometers per second. Bipolar outflows or jets are distinctive features of young stellar objects. When these jets hit the interstellar material or gas they create bright shocks and regions of emission.
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