What is the direction of the electric field at a point directly to the left of a positive charge, q?

The direction of an electric field at any point is the direction that a
small positive charge would want to move if it were located there.

We know that like charges repel.  So the electric field around a
positive charge always points away from it.

The electric field at a point to the left of the positive charge Q
points away from Q, toward the left.  A small positive charge
located there would want to get farther away from Q, and it
would try to move farther left. 

Stars are born within the clouds of dust and scattered throughout most galaxies. a familiar example of such as a dust cloud is the orion nebula. turbulence deep within these clouds gives rise to knots with sufficient mass that the gas and dust can begin to collapse under its own gravitational attraction. as the cloud collapses, the material at the center begins to heat up. known as a protostar, it is this hot core at the heart of the collapsing cloud that will one day become a star. three-dimensional computer models of star formation predict that the spinning clouds of collapsing gas and dust may break up into two or three blobs; this would explain why the majority the stars in the milky way are paired or in groups of multiple stars.therefor, i would say the answer is: dust and gases contract.i hope this ! < 3