Maybe Ockham was right!

"entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem" - Ockham's razor

Or as we are familiar with it in Engish: "All other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best."

From How the First Stars Were Born:

"A new supercomputer simulation offers the most detailed view yet of how the first stars evolved after the Big Bang.

The model follows the simpler physics that ruled the early universe to see how cold clumps of gas eventually grew into giant star embryos."

"Mysterious "dark matter" provided the first gravitational impetus for hydrogen and helium gas to start clumping together, Hernquist said. The gas began releasing energy as it condensed, forming molecules from atoms, which further cooled the clump and allowed for even greater condensing.

Unlike previous models, the latest simulation takes this cooling process of "complex radiative transfer" into account, said Nagoya University astrophysicist Naoki Yoshida, who headed up the modeling project.

Eventually gravity could not condense the gas cloud any further, because the densely-packed gas exerted a pressure against further collapse. That equilibrium point marked the beginning of an embryonic star, called a protostar by astronomers." & this is only the protostar stage.

Meanwhile let's look at the Bible's description of how stars came to be:

"In the beginning God created heaven and earth. . . . . God said, "Let there be lights in the vault of heaven to divide day from night, and let them indicate festivals, days and years. Let them be lights in the vault of heaven to shine on the earth." And so it was. God made the two great lights: the greater light to govern the day, the smaller light to govern the night, and the stars. " Genesis 1:1, 14-16

Let's see, which is the simplest solution to the question of how stars came about?

I'd say the description in Genesis is.

It is entirely possible that God could have used a process like the 1 described in the Space article. Then again, He may have simply spoke all things into creation. I say may for the 1st way because that is the current theory. Some day something may pop up to disprove it.

In the end, whatever processes God did or didn't use, the fact remains, God called everything into being, not by chance, but with a plan He guided step by step.

Meanwhile, I think that Psalm 8:3 has the best scientifically observable fact: "I look up at your heavens, shaped by your fingers, at the moon and the stars you set firm."