Sequence of the main phases of the formation of a star: very slowly rotating cloud of gas, gravitational collapse, star formation by slow contraction and accretion with generation of intense stellar winds, collimation of the stellar wind into bipolar flow.
the University of Oregon, Department of Physics, the Electronic Universe Project

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