{"id":206117,"date":"2025-02-11T07:17:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T13:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/protostar-and-its-evolution"},"modified":"2025-02-11T07:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T13:17:14","slug":"protostar-and-its-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/protostar-and-its-evolution","title":{"rendered":"Protostar and It\u2019s Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/protostar-and-its-evolution.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Star formation begins in the molecular cloud where each dense core is initially in a balance between self-gravity, which tends to compress the object, and both gas pressure and magnetic pressure, which tend to inflate it.<\/p>\n<p>Since the mass of the Milky Way galaxy is about 10<sup>11 <\/sup>M<sub>\u2299<\/sub> and its age is about 10<sup>10 <\/sup>years, we can calculate that at present, new stars are forming in the molecular cloud of the Milky Way at a rate of about three M<sub>\u2299<\/sub> per year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/physicsfeed.com\/post\/astronomers-have-witnessed-a-spot-where-exoplanets-may-be-forming\/\">Astronomer Witnessed a Star System Being Born<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star formation begins in the molecular cloud where each dense core is initially in a balance between self-gravity, which tends to compress the object, and both gas pressure and magnetic pressure, which tend to inflate it. Since the mass of the Milky Way galaxy is about 1011 M\u2299 and its age is about 1010 years, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}