The professional literature reveals NGC 6751 to be a highly structured, multiple-shell planetary with a
bipolar outflow. Well-known observer Steve Coe proclaims it to be one of the best objects in Aquila, and many would agree.
Looking at the star using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers had expected to see a
bipolar outflow of twin lobes of gas from the star.
The new research focuses on HH 46/47, the
bipolar outflow from a protostar forming on the outskirts of the Gum Nebula, at about 1,400 light-years away.
Mapping the carbon monoxide, he found that the infrared source is the center of a
bipolar outflow of matter amounting to something between 1 and 10 times the mass of the sun per year.
When the star later expels a fast wind, the wind rams into and is funneled by the older material, creating a
bipolar outflow.
The present project brings together the expertise of two research groups at MPIfR, infrared interferometry in order to investigate the structure of the disk and submillimeter astronomy showing the structure of the
bipolar outflow," he added.
t does so by spewing material in opposite directions as a
bipolar outflow.
Bipolar outflow results when the rotating disks that surround developing new stars jet gas from their polar regions, which astronomers have observed telescopically.
At the same time, strong winds lift off from the inner disk regions and form a
bipolar outflow that burrows through the surrounding dark cloud, thus forming two large outflow cavities.
It ejects two streams of plasma in a
bipolar outflow at velocities of several hundred kilometers per second.