The Sun Is A Mass Of Incandescent Gas

solar flare

I learned the song in third grade

... a gigantic nuclear furnace. Where hydrogen is made into helium...

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lol...catchy ain't it?

I've been a huge TMBG fan since I was a kid.

Triangle man beats particle man (and I still mourn that fact)
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From Herschel, the European Space Agency mission

This image, in the constellation of Vulpecula, shows an entire assembly line of newborn stars. The diffuse glow reveals the widespread cold reservoir of raw material that our Milky Way galaxy has in stock for building stars.

Large-scale turbulence from the giant colliding galactic flows causes this material to condense into the web of filaments that we see all over the image. These are the "pregnant" entities where the material becomes colder and denser. At this point, gravitational forces take over and fragment these filaments into chains of stellar embryos that can finally collapse to form baby stars. 



Mimas moon of Saturn