How to make a Star.
via kylewpppd, howstuffworks:
- Disturb clouds of gas using nearby gravitational phenomena, repeat until gas begins to clump together.
- Next, rotate and collapse clumps until flattened.
- Continue rotating flattened disc faster and faster, material will pull inward.
- Heat will produce helium and energy out of hydrogen atoms.
- Step back, wait millions of years.
- The bipolar flow will soon erupt from the protostar (see step 3) and blast away all remaining gas and dust (see step 1).
Source: science.howstuffworks.com