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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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Heat death of the universeRelated: The fading supply of star-forming gas ends the universe’s main source of new starlight.

• Tidal dwarf galaxyRelated: Gas compressed in tidal debris can collapse and produce young stellar populations.

• Whirlpool GalaxyRelated: Compressed gas along the Whirlpool’s arms gives rise to bright regions of newly formed stars.

• Nuclear star clusterRelated: Gas reaching a galactic center can produce new generations within the nuclear cluster.

• Flocculent spiral galaxyRelated: Bright young stars make fragmented arm segments especially visible.

• Magellanic BridgeRelated: New stars show that parts of the Bridge’s gas have become gravitationally unstable.

• Messier 51Related: Interaction-driven compression contributes to active star-forming regions in the system.

• Galaxy morphological classificationRelated: Star-forming activity often correlates with galaxy structure, though the two are distinct classifications.

• Messier 83Related: Messier 83’s spiral arms provide observable sites for studying ongoing stellar birth.

• Ring galaxyRelated: Gas compressed in a ring can trigger a conspicuous wave of new star formation.

• H I regionRelated: H I can cool, compress, and contribute material to star-forming molecular clouds.

• Hoag's ObjectRelated: Ongoing star formation helps account for the ring's blue color.

• Orion ArmRelated: Young stars make spiral-arm regions such as Orion conspicuous.

• Pinwheel GalaxyRelated: Gas compression along spiral arms helps produce the galaxy’s bright young stellar regions.

• Sub-brown dwarfRelated: Sub-brown dwarfs may arise as the lowest-mass products of star-like collapse.

• Andromeda–Milky Way collisionRelated: Tidal forces during a merger can compress gas and alter the galaxies’ star-forming activity.

• Dark galaxyRelated: A dark galaxy is distinguished by unusually inefficient conversion of gas into stars.