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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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