infant star

Definitions

1. 1

   Synonym of protostar.

   • Eventually, the energy released by the collapsing material raises the temperature in the core of an infant star enough to ignite self-sustaining nuclear reactions.
   • protostar: infant star in a gas cloud before it is hot enough for nuclear reactions to start
   • As nuclear fusion ignites at the centre of an infant star, the outer regions of the gas cloud that formed it are still falling inwards.
2. 2

   A newly formed star

   A newly formed star; a star that has just begun to sustain a fusion reaction.

   • Perhaps thy sight is wandering far Throughout the kindled sky, In tracing every infant star Amid the lights on high,
   • Emitted radiation and a stellar wind flow from the infant star.
   • In one discovery, Spitzer's infrared eyes have peered into the place where planets are born—the center of a dusty disc surrounding an infant star—and sped the icy ingredients of planets and comets.

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