A Star is Born (IMAGE)

University of Chicago

A Star is Born

Caption

This is an artist's rendition of a sun-like star as it might have looked at one million years of age. As a cosmochemist, the University of Chicago's Lawrence Grossman reconstructs the sequence of minerals that condensed from the solar nebula, the primordial gas cloud that eventually formed the sun and planets.

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(NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle, SSC)

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