How do star clusters form from a single star?

My hw asks for me to describe the process, but my textbook says that they are formed from interstellar gas. So how does a single star give birth to an entire cluster?How do star clusters form from a single star?Um... that's not the way it works. Huge gas clouds give birth to star clusters - usually due to a sudden 'clumping' within the cloud - that forces the gas to condense %26amp; give birth to many stars in a short period of time.



Are you sure the question isn't: How do star clusters form a single star?



If you look at the Orion Nebula, it's really a stellar nursery - and there about 1300 stars in the region. They formed from the gas within the nebula, and most of the stars are very young - some less than a million years old.How do star clusters form from a single star?Okay...
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They kinda don't. You need a gas cloud to collapse in a bunch of places to get a cluster.
BUT.. it's like dominoes in that sometimes it takes a single "push" to get the whole thing going. That push can come from a single large star going nova in the area of a gas cloud. The waves from the nova can compress the gases enough that they start to collapse in to stars. That could be what they are asking about....How do star clusters form from a single star?You've misunderstood something somewhere; star clusters *don't* form from a single star. Star clusters form inside those immense clouds of interstellar gas and dust where the density of the material is high enough for accretion to start making individual stars.How do star clusters form from a single star?
They don't. Star clusters are born when a giant molecular cloud collapses into groups of stars.