SOLAR SYSTEM

UNIVERSE

SOLAR SYSTEM FORMATION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
How do stars, including our Sun, form?Choose 1 answer:
A
From a black hole
B
Through accretion
C
From a collision between two massive planetary objects
D
From a collapse of a cloud of matter under the pressure of gravity
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Stars form from an accumulation of gas and dust, which collapses due to gravity and starts to form stars. The process of star formation takes around a million years from the time the initial gas cloud starts to collapse until the star is created and shines like the Sun.

Detailed explanation-2: -If the star is large enough, it can go through a series of less-efficient nuclear reactions to produce internal heat. However, eventually these reactions will no longer generate sufficient heat to support the star agains its own gravity and the star will collapse.

Detailed explanation-3: -As gravity compresses the core of a protostar, the temperature goes higher and higher. Eventually the temperature is high enough that the star starts fusing hydrogen into helium. When the outward pressure produced by the heating of the gas by fusion energy balances gravity, a stable star is formed.

Detailed explanation-4: -Stars are born when giant clouds of gas and dust collapse. Whenever one of the collapsing regions becomes hot and dense enough for nuclear fusion to set in, a star is born.

Detailed explanation-5: -In fact, our planet isn’t the only place with gravity. Every object in the universe-stars, planets, moons, even you-has gravity.

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