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 Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 4:00 pm Post subject: Wired Space Photo of the Day: Outflow in Carina |
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This image from the Blanco 4-meter telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile was used to discover an extremely large outflow in the Carina Nebula, known as Herbig-Haro 666 (HH 666). Ionized gas squirts out along the polar axis of the hidden young star in this jet-like outflow at speeds up to 500,000 mph. <div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'>     </td></tr></table></div><br/><br/> 
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