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Being a little over a million years old, the most extreme star R136a1 is already 'middle-aged' and has undergone an intense weight loss programme, shedding a fifth of its initial mass over that time, or more than fifty solar masses."
NGC 3603 is a cosmic factory where stars form frantically from the nebula's extended clouds of gas and dust
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So this star is a little over a million years old... in an area where "stars form frantically".
Carl, are you sayin proto stars and pre-main sequence stars already exist in this region?... it is just the last stage of development that is called "forming".
Sorry, i was a little ambiguous in my previous post, i was commenting on the ability of the "frantic gas" in the region to remotely pay attention gravity, thus frantically "form".