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Acknowledgements Much of the material in this video is based on the excellent course An Introduction to Astronomy by Helen Johnson http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~helenj/IntroductiontoAstronomy.html Images and Videos courtesy of NASA and

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Acknowledgements

  • Much of the material in this video is based on the excellent course An Introduction

to Astronomy by Helen Johnson http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~helenj/IntroductiontoAstronomy.html

  • Images and Videos courtesy of NASA and ESA, unless otherwise noted
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Star Formation

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  • Interstellar medium consists of gas and dust
  • Clouds of dust and gas are called nebulas
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Orion Nebula

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Orion

Credit: Rogelio Bernal Andreo

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Horsehead Nebula (Dark Nebula)

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Horsehead Nebula (Hubble, Visible)

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Horsehead Nebula (Hubble, IR)

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Star formation begins when the cloud starts to collapse under its own gravity.

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It will fragment, and each fragment will collapse further.

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Circumstellar Disk

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Hubble Images within Orion Nebula

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Simulation of Cluster and Star Formation

(Matthew Bate, Exeter)

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Young Star Cluster within Rosette Nebula

Credit: J. C. Cuillandre &

  • G. Fahlman (CFHT Staff),

CFHT

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Pillars of Creation (Hubble, Visible)

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Pillars of Creation (Hubble, IR)

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