Q&A: Why are low temperatures necessary for dense cores to form and contract into protostars?

by Ivan Walsh

Question by XxalicexX: Why are low temperatures necessary for dense cores to form and contract into protostars?

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Answer by deloisnelly35
Are you sure the question asks for low temperatures? Protostars form from a cold, dense molecular cloud. This cloud begins to speed up, and heat up to form a disk. The disk heats up in temperature, and begins to contract, and form a protostar.

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