... elegant laws drove the formation of galaxies, stars, and planets -- including some ... of beauty in the night sky; it is also the closest center of massive starformation ...
... Bart Bok was an accomplished research astronomer who made important contributions to scientific understanding of the Milky Way and starformation. ...
... collaborated with Eric Becklin in the discovery of the Becklin-Neugebauer Object --a massive "proto-star" whose detection led to the study of the formation of stars out of interstellar material -- and in the first infrared mapping of the galactic center ...
... Nebular astrophysics permits us to understand better starformation and galaxy evolution and even helps us construct the young Universe?s future history. ...
... GALAXY WARS: STARFORMATION AND STELLAR POPULATIONS IN INTERACTING GALAXIES . Eds. Beverly Smith, James Higdon, Sarah Higdon, and Nathan Bastian . ...
... Astronomers think that the disks are remnants of the formation of the star, and possibly an early stage in the formation of a planetary system. ...