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The 95 pages that link to Star formation, each with the reason it gives.

• Interstellar mediumRelated: The medium is both the reservoir from which stars form and the material their feedback alters.

• Infrared astronomyRelated: Embedded young stars heat their surroundings, producing infrared emission before they become visible.

• James Webb Space TelescopeRelated: Infrared observations can probe dusty stellar nurseries hidden from visible-light telescopes.

• Molecular cloudNarrower topic: Molecular clouds are the principal sites of star formation in galaxies.

• Milky WayRelated: Molecular clouds in the Milky Way’s disk continually produce new stars.

• H II regionRelated: H II regions mark sites where newly formed massive stars ionize their birth clouds.

• Stellar classificationRelated: Spectral classes help identify young stars and compare them with later stellar states.

• Interstellar dustRelated: Dust shields cold gas from radiation and participates in the chemistry of star-forming clouds.

• Brown dwarfNarrower topic: Many brown dwarfs appear to originate through the same cloud-collapse process.

• Gravitational collapseBroader topic: It is the common outcome of collapse in dense, cold regions of interstellar clouds.

• Galaxy evolutionRelated: It turns a galaxy’s cold gas into stars and shapes its evolving stellar population.

• GalaxyRelated: It converts a galaxy’s cold gas into new generations of stars.

• Jeans instabilityNarrower topic: Jeans-unstable gas clouds can begin the collapse that forms stars.

• Ram-pressure strippingRelated: Removing cold gas can reduce the fuel available for new stars.

• Spiral galaxyRelated: Bright young stars trace spiral arms where gas clouds are compressed.

• Stellar feedbackRelated: Feedback can suppress new collapse by dispersing gas or promote it by compressing clouds.

• Gravitational instabilityBroader topic: Gravitational instability initiates collapse within sufficiently dense molecular-cloud regions.

• Open clusterRelated: It creates the cluster’s stars from a common reservoir of gas.

• Galaxy formation and evolutionRelated: It converts accreted gas into the stellar populations that build galaxies.

• Large Magellanic CloudRelated: The Cloud’s abundant gas fuels intense, observable episodes of star formation.

• Molecular hydrogenNarrower topic: H₂-rich clouds provide the material and cooling conditions associated with most present-day star formation.

• Barred spiral galaxyRelated: Gas concentrated along bars and rings can fuel localized star formation.

• Orion NebulaNarrower topic: The nebula displays this process while massive stars are still forming nearby.

• Galactic bulgeRelated: Central gas can produce young stars within or near a bulge.

• Solar nebulaNarrower topic: The Sun’s birth was one instance of star formation within a larger cloud.

• Emission nebulaNarrower topic: Emission nebulae mark regions where massive young stars illuminate the material from which they formed.

• Galactic chemical evolutionRelated: New stars lock up some interstellar elements and begin another cycle of enrichment.

• Herbig–Haro objectNarrower topic: Herbig–Haro objects are visible signs of active star formation.

• Small Magellanic CloudRelated: New stars form in its gas-rich regions despite its low mass.

• Dwarf galaxyRelated: Small gas supplies and feedback can make star formation intermittent in dwarf galaxies.

• Stellar associationNarrower topic: Associations preserve the nearby stellar products of a shared episode of star formation.

• Stellar rotationNarrower topic: The collapsing cloud’s angular momentum sets the initial conditions for stellar spin.

• Tidal tailRelated: Gas compressed in tidal debris can form young stars and stellar clusters.

• Galactic windRelated: Removing or heating cold gas can suppress future star formation.

• Spiral armRelated: Compression in spiral arms can promote the formation of new stars.

• Star clusterNarrower topic: It produces the groups of young stars that become clusters.

• Baryonic matterRelated: Gravitational collapse gathers diffuse baryonic gas into luminous objects.

• Herschel Space ObservatoryRelated: Herschel traced the cold clouds and early stages that precede visible newborn stars.

• AstrochemistryRelated: Chemical changes track the collapse and heating of material into new stars.

• Circumgalactic mediumRelated: Gas cooling from the surrounding medium can replenish star-forming material.

• Irregular galaxyRelated: Bright young stars often make irregular galaxies visually patchy and uneven.

• Magellanic CloudsRelated: The Clouds contain active regions where new stars are being born.

• Star formation rateNarrower topic: The rate quantifies how quickly this broader process converts gas into stars.

• Antennae GalaxiesNarrower topic: The collision’s compressed gas fuels elevated star formation across the system.

• Cosmic dustRelated: Dust shields cold cloud interiors from radiation, helping gas cool and collapse.

• Dark nebulaRelated: Gravitational collapse inside dark clouds can produce new stars.

• Free-floating planetRelated: Direct formation as isolated bodies may connect these objects to low-mass star formation.

• Grand-design spiral galaxyRelated: Bright, young stars trace active star formation along many spiral arms.

• O-type starNarrower topic: It explains how O-type stars gather mass before reaching the main sequence.

• Eagle NebulaNarrower topic: The Eagle Nebula is a visible site of ongoing star formation.