Tag: star formation
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An astronomical saga of star births, pancakes, and Kylo Ren
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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 […]
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