IN THE BEGINNING…
In this laboratory of
molecules and space matter, physics takes over.
The stellar nursery coalesces into a gravitational center, a collapsing
cloud full of energy, magnetic fields, and turbulence. Matter accelerates faster and faster until a
stellar mass is reached. The dust within
the mass will heat, and when the core temperature reaches about 2,000 Kelvin,
the resulting object will be a nascent protostar.
