Saturday, January 24, 2009

Stable star is born.


"At the beginning of the formation of a star, the gravitational attraction will pull the gas together. At some point, the density and temperature at the center of the cloud of gas will be high enough to ignite the nuclear fusion. The energy produced by the fusion will create two kinds of outward pressure to act against the gravitational attraction. Because of these two balancing forces (the outward pressure and the inward gravitational attraction), the star is stable ."

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