Virtual Babelsberg Starry Night
A young stellar cluster in the star forming region 30 Doradus.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and F. Paresce (INAF-IASF, Bologna, Italy), R. O'Connell (University of Virginia, Charlottesville), and the Wide Field Camera 3 Science Oversight CommitteeNov. 19, 2020 // The next lecture of the virtual Babelsberg Starry Nights of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) will be broadcasted starting on Thursday, 19 November 2020 on the YouTube channel "Urknall, Weltall und das Leben". Please note that the lecture will be given in German.
On Thursday, starting at 6 p.m., the lecture on the topic "The origin of stars" from the Babelsberg Starry Night series will be online. Dr. Philipp Girichidis, researcher in the Cosmology and High-Energy Astrophysics section at the AIP, will explain how stars are born, where in the interstellar medium and under what physical conditions stars and stellar clusters can form, and will also go into the characteristics of molecular clouds. The lecture will be held in German.
This season, the Babelsberg Starry Nights will not take place on site at the AIP, but will come straight to your home: on the 3rd Thursday of each month from 6 p.m. the lectures are available at
https://www.aip.de/babelsberger-sternennaechte
and can be viewed at any time afterwards.
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A young stellar cluster in the star forming region 30 Doradus.
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