Talk:Star formation

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  • Requests: Current sites of star formation (possibly Gould Belt, Taurus, Ophiuchus, Orion, etc); frequency/duration of star formation (possibly Star formation efficiency). The free falling picture discussed should be suplemented by the standard model (subcritical cores collapsing after ambipolar diffusion makes them supercritcal) and supersonic turbulent model. Discussing initial mass functions and star formation rate, the effect of the magnetic field and turbulence are probably the central issues in star formation, but they aren even mentioned in the article.

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[edit] Star Formation & Star formation

Star formation and Star Formation currently point to different articles. They should be merged or disambiguated in some way. -- BenRG 09:40, 7 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Ok. Now both point here. --AstroNomer 23:32, Oct 7, 2003 (UTC)

[edit] References to star formations

Hi all.

Could anyone add information about known current star formations? Also is there any current theory on the expected frequency of observable star formations?

-Sjalq

um....... just about every single nebula ever observed Ezkerraldean

[edit] Additions

Wouldn't some coverage of the following information be appropriate for this page?

and the formation of binary star systems? Thanks. — RJH (talk) 14:52, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Star Formation Nav Box

This partially relates to RJH's comment above. Wikipedia has a range of articles on different aspects of the star formation process with many of them containing excellent material. However, I found from browsing that a lot of that material doesn't seem to be in the right place and that much of it describes the broader picture of star formation rather than the specific sub-object or process mentioned in the article title. It is my opinion that star formation articles need more of a general framework. To that end I've created a nav box for this astronomy subsection to try and give some sense to these articles as whole. I don't claim its perfect, but some sort of unify construct would help focus the topic. --Jason Kirk 15:11, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 10:04, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Removed irrelevant information from pathfinder objects

I have removed 2 dot points from the pathfinder objects as they are clearly not pathfinder objects. One point was a statement which did not have a appropriate reference and the other was an unreferenced irrelevant quote. Coffeeassured (talk) 13:45, 12 April 2008 (UTC)