Abdul works at the planetarium where he is responsible for creating a show on stars. His show is entitled "A Star is Bom," and it will explain the forces that create a star.
Abdul is creating a timeline of a star's life including its beginning, middle, and end. Abdul found a picture to include of the region around a star
before its formation begins. What does it look like?

dust cloud

Explanation:

Stars are formed from the accumulation of the dust as well gases in the solar system. The dust and the gases collapses due to the the gravity forces and the stars are formed.

They are formed within the clouds of the dust and gases and are scattered in the galaxies. The stars are formed in a million of years from the dust clouds.

In the context, Abdul have a picture of a dust cloud which looks smoky and dusty which is the initial stage of the stars formation due to the gravity.  It is the region of the star that looks like a cloud of dust before the formation of the star.