On the Birth of Stars

New insights on their creation

and evolution

A report by:

Comm. R.M. Wey

COSR: SFS-SFC

For a very long time it was considered ‘good science’ to accept the idea that stars were ‘created’ when gases were condensed by gravity to such an extent that they reached ‘critical mass’ and ignited. This ‘in-fall’ theory endured for decades as the ‘explanation’ of how stars formed.

With research conducted by the office of scientific research, using the most advanced telescopes, discoveries have been made to challenge that age-old ‘model’ of the stellar nursery.

Observations of ‘nursery’ class stars, such as the nascent star HH30 and HH47, have shown that…not only do gases fall inward, but outward as well. Narrow streams of gas apparently are belched from the stellar cradle and out into the deep reaches of space.

Observations of stellar formations inside HH34 have indicated that the embryonic stars, while basically spherical, were jettisoning large quantities of gases from bipolar ‘streams’. These ‘streams’ [or out flows], appear to play an integral role in the formation of new stars, with ‘jets’ emitting a quantity of gas into space equal to the mass of the planet Jupiter every day.

Actual physical phenomenon to support this exists in HH1 and HH2, which are actually fountainheads of gas produced from the same young star.

Various methods have been used to test the validity of the new theory. These include quantum mechanics, shock wave physics.

And while the models are tested on computers using rotating clouds of gas and dust as they collapse, thus forming a rapidly spinning accretion disk. Evidence of the ‘out-flow’ of gases occurring while the accretion disk is forming tends to support the theory.

It is the conservation of angular momentum that provided a key to the understanding of how a rotating disk would shed enough of its momentum for gravity to take over and condense the material into a sufficient size for ignition to take place.

It was determined that the only way such momentum could be reduced in the accretion disk, would be to have huge quantities of matter ‘thrown off’. Thus, it was determined that the jets and out flows observed in the stellar nurseries were the result of the ‘stars’ shedding non essential material.