Ocupation: Physicist
Life: February 19, 1939 - July 23, 1988
Birthday: February 19
Death: July 23
It is unlikely that we will ever see a star being born. Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the very young, but never their actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event. Stars are born inside thick clouds of dust and gas in the spiral arms of the galaxy, so thick that visible light cannot penetrate them.
source: Heinz R. Pagels (1985). “Perfect symmetry: the search for the beginning of time”, Simon & Schuster
topic: Stars, Animal, Clouds, Visible Light