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HH 30

Protoplanetary disk in the Taurus molecular cloud

HH-30 (also V1213 Tauri) is an edge-on protoplanetary disk located about 146.4 parsecs from Earth that is surrounded by jets and a disk wind. HH-30 is located in the dark cloud LDN 1551 in the Taurus Molecular Cloud. The HH-30 disk is the prototype of an edge-on disk, due to its early discovery with Hubble.

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HH-30 (also V1213 Tauri) is an edge-on protoplanetary disk located about 146.4 parsecs from Earth that is surrounded by jets and a disk wind. HH-30 is located in the dark cloud LDN 1551 in the Taurus Molecular Cloud. The HH-30 disk is the prototype of an edge-on disk, due to its early discovery with Hubble. The object has been subject to many studies due to a wealth of dynamical processes that are happening to HH-30.

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