KITP: Starmaker

forming stars is easy, except for the details

Mark Krumholz is schooling us on the intricacies.
Awesome movies...

Binary star formation animation

Making a BIG star

Turbulence, dood - that one is just very pretty, nothing much to do with the talk.

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"Billions of years from now our sun, then a distended red giant star, will have reduced Earth to a charred cinder." -Carl Sagan
“Aristotle taught that stars are made of a different matter than the four earthly elements— a quintessence— that also happens to be what the human psyche is made of. Which is why man’s spirit corresponds to the stars.
it is raining, might as well liveblog the morning session... runaway mergers of colliding stars - the quick and dirty intro... stars are, in fact extended bodies. This is mostly irrelevant to astronomers, since typical stellar separations are very large.
"Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted.

I would have liked to have read/seen all that nifty information about star formation...but all I get is:-
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Martin