Illustration of the 'sneeze' of magnetic flux from a baby star (IMAGE)

Kyushu University

Illustration of the 'sneeze' of magnetic flux from a baby star

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The baby star at the center surrounded by a bright disk called a protostellar disk. Spikes of magnetic flux, gas, and dust in blue. Researchers found that the protostellar disk will expel magnetic flux, gas, and dust—much like a sneeze—during a star's formation.

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ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)

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