| Abstract from DBPedia | Star formation is the process by which dense regions within molecular clouds in interstellar space, sometimes referred to as "stellar nurseries" or "star-forming regions", collapse and form stars. As a branch of astronomy, star formation includes the study of the interstellar medium (ISM) and giant molecular clouds (GMC) as precursors to the star formation process, and the study of protostars and young stellar objects as its immediate products. It is closely related to planet formation, another branch of astronomy. Star formation theory, as well as accounting for the formation of a single star, must also account for the statistics of binary stars and the initial mass function. Most stars do not form in isolation but as part of a group of stars referred as star clusters or stellar associations.星形成（ほしけいせい、英: star formation）は、高密度の分子雲が重力で収縮して球状のプラズマとなり恒星が形成される過程のことをいう。星形成研究は天文学の一分野であり、星形成の前段階としての星間物質・の研究や、その生成物としての若い恒星やの研究とも関連する分野である。星形成の理論は一恒星の形成ばかりではなく、連星の統計的研究や初期質量関数を説明するものでもある。 (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Star_formation) |
