I am never rude to anyone...I merely asked a question....if you can't answer it then so be it.......one day before these magnificant stars appeared....where were they? but lets go back a few years before that....what, if anything, existed ten minutes before the first "thing" appeared anywhere????? In my never to be humble opinion, nothing existed except God . God then created EVERYTHING. It didn't just happen, it was created.
The same may be said of snowflakes. In fact, stars are very much in the nature of snowflakes from a cosmic perspective. If you want to say, "The Lord God made them all," I won't quibble.
I might quibble, though, over the time scale. If you were privileged to witness the formation of the stars in the Pleiades, you wouldn't see much happening day by day. I suppose 10,000 years might make a good frame step, corresponding to some fraction of a second in the formation of a snowflake.
In the universe the difficult things are done as if they were easy - Lao Tsu
quoted by Timothy Ferris in GALAXIES