Is there any evidence of stars being born?

Question

When searching the Internet, it's easy to find stars that are dying or exploding, but there seems to be no images of stars being born. There are only illustrations showing how a star forms.

There are nebulas, but I can't find a picture of a gas cloud forming into a star. Why is this?

Answer 1

We see nebulas with newly-formed stars in them, but the actual "birth" of a star is when it flashes on - when nuclear fusion starts - while that's a fairly common thing (it must be - there are 400 *billion* stars in our galaxy alone) - to SEE it happen has to be exceedingly rare.

Answer 2

YES! You Can Look In The Nebulae! You'll Find Mini Red Stars Or Purple Ones.



You Should Look In The Carina Nebula, It's Gigantic, Or The Bubble Nebula.

Answer 3

Great question. I had a good chuckle at all of the answers above. All different. One would imagine our calendar was set up such that he was born in year zero. Classically, I've heard 3BC, but I never did any research into the exact date. One would think that Constantine would have had a hand in this with his embracing Catholicism as much as he did. I'm thinking whatever the truth is, it will be blurred by denominational differences. Good thing the exact date doesn't really matter. Peace. edit: You ask for supporting evidence. Herod the Great died in 4 BCE. Since he ordered the death of males under the age 2, one would have to assume Jesus was born in 6 BCE. That date would be plus or minus 1 year. That fits your 7 BCE thought, and fits with 'most' scholars' theories. I did the date conversion to Gregorian from Jene's Hebrew date of 4064 and came up with 304 CE.

Answer 4

The Eagle Nebula is a great star factory,, go study on it,,,

Answer 5

Of course there are. In the sky you will see dying stars as well as born stars.

Answer 6

Yes, there are several fantastic images of "stellar nurseries."

Take a look at this Hubble Space Telescope image.

Answer 7

Stars are not born they have been there for millions of years... Big stars eventuallly explode (supernova) .