"infant star" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1983, National Science Foundation Annual Report 1983, page 3:",
          "text": "Eventually, the energy released by the collapsing material raises the temperature in the core of an infant star enough to ignite self-sustaining nuclear reactions.",
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          "ref": "2012, John Farndon, What Do We Know about Stars and Galaxies?, page 42:",
          "text": "protostar: infant star in a gas cloud before it is hot enough for nuclear reactions to start",
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          "ref": "2022, Charles Liu, The Cosmos Explained:",
          "text": "As nuclear fusion ignites at the centre of an infant star, the outer regions of the gas cloud that formed it are still falling inwards.",
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        "Synonym of protostar"
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          "ref": "1849, M. A. H., “The Dying Child”, in Echoes of Infant Voices, page 86:",
          "text": "Perhaps thy sight is wandering far Throughout the kindled sky, In tracing every infant star Amid the lights on high,",
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          "ref": "2006, Gregory L. Matloff, Deep Space Probes: To the Outer Solar System and Beyond, page 15:",
          "text": "Emitted radiation and a stellar wind flow from the infant star.",
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          "ref": "2008, Paul Hutchins, The Secret Doorway: Beyond Imagination, page 61:",
          "text": "In one discovery, Spitzer's infrared eyes have peered into the place where planets are born—the center of a dusty disc surrounding an infant star—and sped the icy ingredients of planets and comets.",
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        "A newly formed star; a star that has just begun to sustain a fusion reaction."
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        "(astronomy, astrophysics) A newly formed star; a star that has just begun to sustain a fusion reaction."
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          "text": "protostar: infant star in a gas cloud before it is hot enough for nuclear reactions to start",
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          "text": "As nuclear fusion ignites at the centre of an infant star, the outer regions of the gas cloud that formed it are still falling inwards.",
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          "ref": "2008, Paul Hutchins, The Secret Doorway: Beyond Imagination, page 61:",
          "text": "In one discovery, Spitzer's infrared eyes have peered into the place where planets are born—the center of a dusty disc surrounding an infant star—and sped the icy ingredients of planets and comets.",
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        "A newly formed star; a star that has just begun to sustain a fusion reaction."
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