Brains Matter Episode 89 - Stellar Formation

In this episode I talk to Dr Daniel Price, Monash Fellow from the School of Mathematics at Monash University in Melbourne Australia, about how stars form. We discuss:

- Star formation
- What constitutes a star?
- The first stars in the universe
- Current star formation
- For a given gas cloud, how many stars typically form?
- The Jeans Mass
- The initial mass function
- The evolution of massive stars v regular stars
- What happens to dead stars?
- Formation of stars in clusters and binaries
- The role of turbulence in star formation

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Brains Matter is a podcast out of Australia, which features stories on science, curiosities and general knowledge. It also features interviews with various experts in science and other interesting areas.

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