Star Formation and Feedback
The question of how star formation proceeds over the history of the Universe has been the focus of the work of Associate Curator Mordecai-Mark Mac Low. The clouds of interstellar gas from which stars form are not quiescent, but rather in a state of hypersonic turbulence. Mac Low and his colleagues find that these extreme turbulent motions appear to determine the speed with which the gas collapses into stars, and perhaps also the distribution of stellar masses. Galaxies are also studied.
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