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The Process of Triggered Star Formation

This animation illustrates the process of triggered star formation. First, a massive star in its final death throes explodes or "goes supernova," shooting a shock wave through surrounding clouds of...  
 
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mayush99999 (2 months ago) Show Hide
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great animation!
astrocamp123 (3 months ago) Show Hide
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Excellent video. Depth perception is preserved. I'll use it with my lessons.

Thank you!
ananiasacts (5 months ago) Show Hide
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Be nice if you annotated it with a heads up display showing the time.
Perspektyva (5 months ago) Show Hide
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Learn to read the bloody titles. A triggered star formation implies that there is a naturaly occuring procces and that procces is gravity. Gravity causes clouds of moleculse to collapse onto themselves, once the collapsed structure attains certain pressures and temeratures at it's core nuclear fusion takes place and thus a star i born. This video only shows that in certain conditions the natural collapse can be accelerated by a supernova close by.
lukehi (8 months ago) Show Hide
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this is only one of a number of theories, the process by which massive stars (the one that went supernova) is not yet fully understood. and stars dont only form by triggering like this, they can also form spontaneously
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arbpotatoes (11 months ago) Show Hide
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God is the star breather.

However, if you look at things from a non-religious perspective, clouds of matter, mostly if not entirely hydrogen, which formed after the big bang would have condensed over time to form the first, supermassive stars with masses of over 150 times that of our Sun. Astrophysicists believe that such stars would only have lasted a few million years.
3daysfighters (1 year ago) Show Hide
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uhmm im like really young and i just started reasearching all these things and im pretty sure what made all the stars was the big bang because it created everything
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intelegentdproduct (10 months ago) Show Hide
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the chance of a 747 re-assembling itself in a tornado is the chance of the big bang

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