Minimal Infographic Poster: How a Star Is Born

Educational infographic poster titled "How a Star Is Born" in portrait layout, designed as a minimal infographic for kids ages 8–12, with sharp, readable text labels in clean sans-serif typography. Show a clear top-to-bottom numbered sequence with 9 stages, using bold headings, one-line captions, large sequence numbers, and connecting arrows plus subtle dotted guide lines between each stage. Keep spacing airy and uncluttered while still detailed. Visual style: modern flat illustration, pastel soft mint & peach palette with soft cream background, gentle navy accents for text, friendly educational mood, simple geometric shapes, magazine-grade editorial illustration, vector-clean lines, no photographic textures.

1. heading: "1. Giant Cloud"; caption: "A huge cloud of gas and dust floats in space."; visual: wide nebula shape made of soft mint and peach swirls, tiny white stars around it, small label arrows pointing to gas and dust particles.

2. heading: "2. Gravity Pulls In"; caption: "Gravity slowly pulls the cloud inward."; visual: the cloud narrowing toward the center with curved inward arrows from all sides, dotted motion lines, and a simple gravity icon.

3. heading: "3. Dense Clump"; caption: "The middle becomes smaller, denser, and warmer."; visual: cutaway-style round clump with darker core, outer gas ring, small heat-wave symbols, and a density gradient diagram.

4. heading: "4. Protostar"; caption: "A young protostar begins to glow."; visual: glowing central sphere with faint light halo, surrounding leftover dust disk, spark icons, and a small arrow showing rotation.

5. heading: "5. Hot Core"; caption: "The core gets hotter as more gas falls in."; visual: enlarged cross-section of the protostar with orange-peach center, stacked inward arrows, thermometer-style heat icon, and falling gas streaks.

6. heading: "6. Fusion Starts"; caption: "Hydrogen begins fusing into helium in the core."; visual: simple atom-like diagram inside the star core, two small hydrogen symbols merging into one helium symbol, bright burst icon, and energy arrows moving outward.

7. heading: "7. A Real Star"; caption: "The star shines steadily and gives off light and heat."; visual: bright finished star with symmetrical rays, orbiting tiny planets as simple circles, outgoing light beams, and a clean label for light and heat.

8. heading: "8. Solar Wind"; caption: "The star sends particles and energy into space."; visual: star with flowing curved stream lines moving outward, small particle dots, magnetic-wave style arcs, and arrows pointing into surrounding space.

9. heading: "9. Star System"; caption: "Planets may form from the disk left around the star."; visual: final diagram of the star at center with a flattened disk turning into several planets, ringed orbit lines, tiny rocky and gas planets, and arrows showing planet formation from dust pieces.

Include a small side legend box with exact text labels: "Gas", "Dust", "Gravity", "Heat", "Light", "Fusion" and pair each with a tiny flat icon. Make the connecting flow very clear with peach arrows between stages, dotted mint guide paths, and consistent sequence numbers in rounded circles. Keep the composition minimal, balanced, and easy to follow for children, with no clutter, no brands, no copyrighted characters, and no identifiable people. All text MUST be written in English (array). Every heading, label, caption, legend and metric name in the image must be in English — not English. Spell each English word correctly using English characters and diacritics. Numbers stay as digits, no watermarks Render labels and headings in clean English typography (sans-serif). No real-brand logos, no copyrighted characters, no people that could be identified, no graphic medical content. If the topic touches a regulated domain (medicine, finance, law), keep the explanation conceptual and add no specific dosages, prices or legal advice.