Tag: protostars

• Oo’s a widdle bitty baby protostar?

  Protostars are, as the name suggests, what we have before a star forms. Clouds of gas and dust collapse under gravitation, heat up, and (at least in some cases) begin fusing hydrogen into helium in their cores. A new observation of a protostar catches it very early in its formation, while it was still accreting […]

  Matthew R. Francis

  December 6, 2012

  Ars Technica, Writing for Other Sites

  protostars, star formation