Cosmic forensic experts are reconstructing the magnetic field around an infant star from the planet-forming disk of gas and dust around it.

127, No. 955, September 2015 The Distribution of Main Sequence and Pr... The Distribution of Main Sequence and Premain Sequence Stars in the Young Anticenter Cluster NGC 2401 This is the metadata ...

leading to a state of equilibrium between gravitational collapse and the energy released during fusion Key fact In a main sequence star, hydrogen nuclei fuse together to form helium nuclei.

More massive stars than the Sun have a very different life cycle and follow the right hand path in the diagram above: \({Nebula}\rightarrow{protostar}\rightarrow{main~sequence~star}\rightarrow{red ...