Factors that Effect Star formationBy: Daryien Golden and Laura Karabasz

Objective

•Discuss the factors that compete against gravity in the process of star formation.

Heat• The effect of heat is

much stronger than the effect of gravity

• Combined gravity is insufficient to bind stars into a lasting, distinct clump of matter

• Motions of a few atoms within an interstellar cloud.

Rotation• Competes with

gravity's inward pull

• Material towards outside edge tends to fly out into space

• Extended disk of matter forms around the edge of the cloud

• rapidly rotating gas cloud

Magnetism• Hinder a cloud's

contraction• The particles tend to

become "tied" to the magnetic field--free to move along the field lines but inhibited from moving perpendicular to them.

• Interstellar clouds may contract in distorted ways

• evolution of a slowly contracting interstellar cloud

Works Cited• Astronomy textbook• "Chapter 19." Chapter 19. N.p., n.d.

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