494-stellar-evolution-disks-dixon –A detailed infographic chart illustrating the parallel evolutionary stages of stellar system formation from molecular clouds down to mature stellar objects. The diagram is split into two distinct vertical columns connected by gray downward arrows, contrasting a high-mass or solar-type star path on the left with a lower-mass or brown dwarf evolutionary path on the right. Each track progresses downwards from an initial collapse of a gas nebula into an accretion disk, followed by the clearing of the protoplanetary disk, and ending with fully formed substellar or planetary bodies at the bottom against a deep space background filled with cosmic dust. Artwork © 2007 Don Dixon / cosmographica.com
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