Protostar

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A Protostar is an object that forms by contraction out of the gas of a giant molecular cloud in the interstellar medium.
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Protostars typically form from molecular clouds consisting primarily of molecular hydrogen. When a portion of a molecular cloud reaches a critical size, mass, or density, it begins to collapse under its own gravity.
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Protostar:
The contracting cloud heats up due to friction and forms a glowing protostar; this stage lasts for roughly 50 million years. If there is enough material in the protostar, the gravitational collapse and the heating continue.
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Protostars with masses less than roughly 0.08 M⊙ (1.6Ã-1029 kg) never reach temperatures high enough for nuclear fusion of hydrogen to begin. These are known as brown dwarfs.
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protostar Stage in star formation when the interior of a collapsing cloud of gas is sufficiently hot and dense that it becomes opaque to its own radiation, but not hot enough for the onset of nuclear reactions. [More Info: Field Guide] ...
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Protostar: A star that has not yet started core hydrogen burning.
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Quaoar: A planetoid in the Kuiper Belt on the edge of the solar system, about half the size of Pluto.
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A collection of interstellar gas and dust whose gravitational pull is causing it to collapse on itself and form a star.
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PROTOSTAR
A protostar is a star that is still forming and nuclear fusion has not yet begun.
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Protostar- a stage in the formation of a star which implies the body is nearly full-size; the star is still within its parent nebula, and does not yet produce energy through nuclear fusion ...
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The initial stage of stellar formation. A protostar generates energy but its core is not hot enough to ignite nuclear fusion.
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Protostar
dense regions of molecular clouds where stars are forming.
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a generally circular crater produced by a phreatic eruption resulting from emplacement of a lava flow over wet ground.
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Protostar: A forming star, prior to settling down to the main sequence and burning hydrogen in its core.
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protostar: A collapsing cloud of gas and dust destined to become a star.
protostellar disk: A gas cloud around a forming star flattened by its rotation.
pulsar: A source of short, precisely timed radio bursts; believed to be a spinning neutron star.
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Protostar - A star in the process of formation
Pulsar - A rotating neutron star with beams of radiation emerging from its magnetic poles. When the beams sweep past the Earth, we see "pulses" of radiation ...
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A protostar will reach a temperature of 2000 to 3000 K, hot enough to glow a dull red with most of its energy in the infrared. The cocoon of gas and dust surrounding them blocks the visible light.
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A protostar is a star that is still forming and has not yet begun.
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A protosun is a star that is still forming, during the early stages of a solar system.
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The protostar "bits" are all destined to become individual stars of assorted mass. Less massive lumps become low mass stars while massive lumps become high mass stars. As a general rule there are lots of low mass stars for every high mass star.
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Many protostar contractions have been observed in isolated gas clouds; that is, where one cloud contracted to form one star.
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In some protostars, contraction remains the only source of energy; these are brown dwarfs, and they die away slowly, over hundreds of billions of years.
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The light from a protostar is absorbed by the dust surrounding it, causing the dust to warm up and radiate in the infrared.
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protostars (High Energy Astrophysics Dictionary- GSFC) Very dense regions (or cores) of molecular clouds where stars are in the process of forming. protosun (NASA SP-7, 1965) The sun as it emerged in the formation of the solar system.
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The tremendous heat given off by the nuclear fusion process causes the gas to glow creating a protostar. This is the first step in the evolution of a star. The glowing protostar continues to accumulate mass.
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After the central protostar collapses to a sphere, gas continues to fall onto it from the nebula, via the accretion disk.
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Dense "clumps" of dust circle variable protostar R Monocerotis (at the tip of nebula) and cast dark shadows on the walls of a cavity etched by the protostar's light in a dark molecular cloud (inside which this protostar formed).
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Cameron developed a much more massive model of the protostar nebula, in which the comets accreted in a circular ring at some 1,000 AU from the Sun, which is far beyond the present limits of the planetary system.
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Accretion disks have been observed, or theorized to exist, in association with protostars, T Tauri stars, and other very young stars, Vega-type stars, and many interacting binary systems, including U Geminorum stars, novae, symbiotic stars, ...
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BLACK and MILDRED SHAPLEY MATTHEWS (eds.), Protostars & Planets II (1985); JOHN F. KERRIDGE and MILDRED SHAPLEY MATTHEWS (eds.), Meteorites and the Early Solar System (1988); and S.K. ATREYA, J.B.
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Accretion disks around a variety of objects seem to be able to produce jets (protostars certainly do, in addition to accreting black holes). It is just that the ones from an accreting black hole tend to be the fastest and the most spectacular.
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This theory is a version of Jeans's theory in which the Sun interacts with a nearby protostar dragging a filament of material from the protostar.
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The center compresses enough to become a protostar and the rest of the gas orbits/flows around it. Most of that gas flows inward and adds to the mass of the forming star, but the gas is rotating.
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The discs of gas that form around the protostars also contain a lot of mass and gravity can also cause protostars to form within these discs. For example, around the first binary, 3 objects form, ...
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Another calls for the forceful combination of two protostars.
A third, called the "collect-and-collapse" model, says that a parent massive star influences the formation of second-generation stars.
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This is another emission nebula, with young hot protostars that can be observed only in infrared wavelengths. It is nearly as bright as M21, and stretches nearly three quarters of a degree across the sky.
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" (T Tauri and its kind are "protostars" that are still in the act of formation, are still accreting matter from their surrounding disks, which will most likely spawn planets, and have yet to turn on their hydrogen fusion; ...
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A cool ( 20 µ, and a CO cloud is centered on it. It is probably a collapsing cloud of 102-103 M in which protostars are embedded. (KL nebula) [H76]
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Jets appear to originate in the vicinity of an extremely dense object, such as a black hole, pulsar, or protostar, with a surrounding accretion disk. These jets are thought to be perpendicular to the plane of the accretion disk.
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Somehow, matter falling toward a central object — which can range from a single protostar to a galaxy's central supermassive black hole — becomes focused and redirected into a fast-moving outflow.
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Eventually, the central Protostar becomes so hot and compressed that nuclear fusion begins at the core, this makes more material and the disk to be blown off, and the starts to shine into clear space.
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galaxy that are enriched areas capable of undergoing star formation. The Eagle, Lagoon and Orion Nebulas all show the presence of heavy element, an abundance of dust and physical structures that appear to be fragmenting into newly formed protostars.
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