Stars are born in stellar nurseries, molecular clouds of cold gas and dust. These clouds contain many times the mass of a ...

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Besides being a point of light, a star is a luminous, spherical mass of plasma, enough to hold itself together under its own gravity. On its own, though, gravitational rounding isn't enough.