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Originally Posted by mromro
I have an issue with this whole thing. If it were true then why don't we see new stars just poping up in the sky all the time?
New stars should be showing up in the sky as their light finally reaches the earth after millions of years? but we don't see that. all we see is stuff die.
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That's not correct, go outside and check out the little smudge in the sky called the Orion Nebula , then grab a telescope and look at the smudge and with a pretty basic telescope you'll see the trapezium stars, four very new, bright, hot stars inside a massive gas cloud which is the closest thing you'll get to seeing live birth in stellar terms. These stars can be seen by anyone with a basic telescope and are unbelievably young when compared to our Sun, which isn't old in itself. If the Sun was a man, he'd be slightly built, quite average loner (no companion) , of about 32 - 35 years of age. The trapezium stars would have been born 2 minutes ago.