Stars begin life as clouds of cold gas that transform into blazing hot fireballs.

Star dust, star dust, burning bright

Amid the glare of ancient light

Eternity stares back from the past

Reborn we'll be one day as dust

Stellar astrophysics
January 14, 2012 – Walk out to a dark viewing spot anywhere on the Earth and look up at the night sky. Your eyes will take in ancient light from stars in the Milky Way that covers the whole sky above you. Deep within the stellar nurseries of the Mil...