Protostar (1999)
A protostar is an object that is not quite yet a star. Stars are born in clouds of
gas and dust — the ashes from earlier generations of dead stars. Gradually the
cloud collapses under its own gravity, and its rotation makes it flatten out like a
pizza dough spun in the air. This picture shows what you might see if you could peer
through the protostar's birth cloud at the newly forming sun inside.
