Protostars

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Abstract from DBPedia
    A protostar is a very young star that is still gathering mass from its parent molecular cloud. The protostellar phase is the earliest one in the process of stellar evolution. For a low-mass star (i.e. that of the Sun or lower), it lasts about 500,000 years. The phase begins when a molecular cloud fragment first collapses under the force of self-gravity and an opaque, pressure supported core forms inside the collapsing fragment. It ends when the infalling gas is depleted, leaving a pre-main-sequence star, which contracts to later become a main-sequence star at the onset of hydrogen fusion producing helium.

    原始星（げんしせい）(protostar) とは、生まれたばかりの星のことで、分子雲の中でもガスの密度の高い分子雲コアが自己重力で収縮しはじめ、質量が一定のまま半径が収縮するTタウリ型星やハービッグAe/Be型星になる前の状態までを指す。

    (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Protostar)