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folubunmi

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A typical protostar may be several thousand times more luminous than our Sun; where does this energy come from?
 
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Question 2

Organic molecules are
 
  A) carbon-based.
  B) silicon-based.
  C) living cells.
  D) found only on Earth.
  E) not found outside our solar system.


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Reply #1 on: Jul 27, 2018
Answer to Question 1

From the release of gravitational energy as the protostar shrinks in stages 2 and 3.

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