A Star is Born How Stars Are Formed

1. A Star is BornHow Stars Are Formed Star formation in the Eagle Nebula as seen with the Hubble Space Telescope

2. A tower of cold gas and dust rising from the Eagle Nebula; 9.5 light years of height • The Eagle nebula

3. The Dumbbell nebula

4. In the Beginning Dark Clouds as Stellar Nurseries • The Horsehead Nebula, a dark cloud in Orion. From the Anglo-Australian Observatory

5. The Collapse Formation of a Protostar • The Orion Nebula, a site of active star formation. From the Hubble Space Telescope

6. Behind the Veil Protostars • A protostellar disk and outflow. From the Hubble Space Telescope

7. Out of the Darkness Classical T Tauri Stars • A young star and its circumstellar disk. From the Hubble Space Telescope

8. From Disks to Planets Weak-lined T Tauri Stars • An X-ray image of T Tauri stars in the L1551 cloud. From the ASCA X-ray satellite.

9. Childhood's End The Main Sequence • The Sun: the nearest Main Sequence star to the Earth. This is an X-ray image from the Yohkoh satelite.

10. THE END Thankyou!