Not a fan of the inaccurate click bait title. It's the "exact" moment plus or minus a few hundred thousand years. The star at the center is still a protostar and hasn't reached its final size / brightness it's still hidden by the disc it's forming from. So not a visible star with nuclear fusion powering it. The lines are light emitted from the jets coming from the protostars poles as they cut though the interstellar medium and they are extremely long.
Come on people, it was a star before it was born. It was a star at the moment of conception, not birth. Blahblah somethingsomething fetus lives or something.
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Not a fan of the inaccurate click bait title. It's the "exact" moment plus or minus a few hundred thousand years. The star at the center is still a protostar and hasn't reached its final size / brightness it's still hidden by the disc it's forming from. So not a visible star with nuclear fusion powering it. The lines are light emitted from the jets coming from the protostars poles as they cut though the interstellar medium and they are extremely long.
If there's no fusion happening then I don't think I can certify this birth just yet.
Let's pass a 6 week fusion bill. Once we detect fusion with an ultrasound, then it's viable and must be carried to term.
To missquote Willie Nelson:
Yeah, uh... Can we have a link please? Or a little description?
I think the object pictures is HH30 (HH for Herbig-Haro object.
What you can see is the proto planetary disk around a newly formed star and the jets of matter ejected by the star.
The disk will later collapse into the planets orbiting the star and the jets will fade.
Edit: For these kinds of objects, the stars are often not fully formed, hence they are called proto stars.
Thank you kind lemming!
Probably not from ‘op’.
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OP is notorious for just posting images and a headline without any source
By the power of Grayskull!
Come on people, it was a star before it was born. It was a star at the moment of conception, not birth. Blahblah somethingsomething fetus lives or something.
That is not my mom's vagina, and NASA wasn't there