“The formation of stars is one of the most fundamental problems in astrophysics, as it underlies many other questions, no scales from the formation of galaxies to the formation of the solar system…no model can reproduce all the observations.”
Derek Ward-Thompson, professor of Physics and Astronomy University of Central Lancashier
“The truth is we don’t understand star formation at a fundamental level.”
Abraham Loeb Professor of Science Harvard University
Stars are formed, astronomers think, when such a cloud of gas and dust collapses gravitationally, first into clumps, then into dense cores, each of which can then begin to further collapse and form a young star. The details of how this happens are not well understood.”
https://phys.org/news/2012-03-astronomers-rare-peek-early-stage.html
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