forming stars is easy, except for the details
Mark Krumholz is schooling us on the intricacies.
Awesome movies...
Binary star formation animation
Turbulence, dood - that one is just very pretty, nothing much to do with the talk.
More like this
"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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You don't have permission to access /~krumholz on this server.
Hey ho.
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Martin
ok, it works for me still - links go back to krumholz's page at ucolick.org