Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/ETH Zuerich/M.Guedel et al.; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss

Chandra's image of DG Tau (left) reveals the first double-sided X-ray jet ever detected from a young star. The jet, which runs from the top left to the bottom right, extends about 70 billion miles away from the star. Scientists think that a similar jet may have been launched from our young Sun and could have had a significant impact on the early solar system. The artist's illustration (right) shows the star, a disk of cool gas that surrounds DG Tau, and the inner regions of the jets. Material from the disk flows onto the star and feeds the jets that flow outward.

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