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Protostars are difficult to observe because the protostar stage is very short. they are surrounded by cocoons of gas and dust. they radiate mainly in the infrared. all of the above. they are all so far away that the light hasnt reached us yet. Interstellar gas clouds may collapse to form stars if they have very high temperatures. encounter a shock wave. rotate rapidly. are located near main sequence spectral type K and M stars. all of the above. Opacity is the balance between the pressure and force of gravity inside a star. the force that binds protons and neutrons together to form a nucleus. the force that binds an electron to the nucleus in an atom. a measure of the resistance to the flow of radiation (photons) through a gas. the temperature and density at which a gas will undergo thermonuclear fusion. The visual pink glow of the Great Nebula in Orion is a Herbig-Haro object. is a reflection nebula of dust. is an emission nebula of thin gas. contains only young low mass stars. is believed to be about 5 billion years old. Emission nebulae are also called ____ because they are composed of ionized hydrogen. HI regions HII regions Bok globules HeI regions reflection nebulae ____ are star-like objects that contain less than 0.08 solar masses an will never raise their core temperatures high enough that the proton-proton chain can begin. Other minor fusion reactions do occur in these objects. They fall in a gap between the low-mass M dwarf stars and the massive planets in which nuclear fusion never occurs. Brown dwarfs Herbig-Haro objects Bok globules T-Tauri star Main sequence stars The average star spends ____ of its lifetime on the main sequence. 1% 2% 10% 20% 90% The lower edge of the Main Sequence band is known as ____ and represents the location in the HR-diagram at which stars begin their lives as main sequence stars. the Coulomb barrier hydrostatic equilibrium the birth line the zero-age main sequence the evolutionary track ____ is the thermonuclear fusion of hy