... Stellar Evolution is driven entirely by the never ending battle between Pressure and Gravity . As imbalances are reached, the star is driven to find a new Energy source. ... Pressure and gravitational forces are equal, the star is stable and its core is sufficiently hot to fuse Hydrogen into Helium More about main sequence stars . ... The luminosity generated by the core fusion of Helium into Carbon is far greater than the shell luminosity associated with the fusion of Hydrogen into Helium. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Galaxy Formation and Evolution . ... Gas heating and outflows driven by accreting supermassive black holes (quasar phase) may affect the evolution of star formation in their host galaxy. ... The starburst galaxy M82, which expels dust and metal enriched gas out of its disk . ... The interstellar medium (ISM) plays a central role in galaxy evolution, providing the fuel for star formation and also hosting the ?fossil record? of the galaxy formation history. ...

Amanda Karakas One of the most important research fields in astrophysics is the study of the origin of the elements. ... Asymptotic Giant Blanch (AGB) Stars: For low and intermediate-mass stars (with initial masses between about 0.8 to 8 solar masses) the most important nucleosynthesis occurs when stars evolve off the main sequence to the giant branches. ... This indicates that these stars obtained their unusual abundances via mass transfer from a previous red giant star, that has long evolved away. ...

... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Late Stages of Stellar Evolution . Welcome to the home page of the Late Stages of Stellar Evolution" We are a research group which operates within the Astrophysics Group of the Australia Telescope National Facility. ... To investigate the late stages of stellar evolution and in particular the role of stellar mass-loss in the evolution of asymptotic giant branch stars, proto-planetary nebulae and extremely massive stars. ...

... A.V. Eliseev . ... V.V. Adushkin, A.V. Vityazev, D.O. Glazachev, G.V. Pechernikova . Exogenous factors in the evolution of the Earth. ... Cosmic rays as a factor of biospheric evolution . ... A.V. Yakushev, N.A. Churilin, V.S. Soina, A.G. Kudinova, E.A. Vorobyova, N.S. Mergelov . ...

... The Evolution Of Low Luminosity Galaxies And Faint Blue Galaxies Mini-Workshop . ... What do we learn from detailed studies of stellar populations such as are possible for nearby dwarfs? ... Can we find a population of galaxies at low redshift which might correspond to a higher redshift population, i.e. the faint blue galaxies? ... The Formation of Dwarf Galaxies . ... What roles do bursts of star formation have in the evolution of dwarf galaxies? ... Are Faint Blue Galaxies Really Dwarfs? ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Activities > PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members . ... Science Users Information . ... Data Handling and Products . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... ESO Data . ... ESO Data Access Policy . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... ESO astronomers often are working on scientific programmes and data sets that are suited for PhD theses. This page gives an overview over what is currently offered by Faculty astronomers. ... Thesis topic . ...

... General information . ... Staff . Research staff . ... Information . ... Historical highlights . Historical research . ... This process is thought to occur in circumstellar disks of gas and dust around young stars on rather short timescales : infrared surveys show that the number of low mass stars with disks drops dramatically for stars older than 10 Myr, suggesting that in order to form large solids before the disk disperses, the growth process has to take place within a few million years. ...

... This recently reintroduced area of research at the Observatory continues a tradition established at the Observatory by E.J. Opik , focusing on problems involving the origin and evolution of comets , their dynamical transfer from the Oort cloud and other reservoirs into short-period orbits , the interrelationship between comets and asteroids (particularly objects in Earth-crossing ... The first concerns the origin and evolution of the Oort cloud in the Galaxy. ...

Microsymposium 34, MS047, 2001 SOME PROBLEMS OF THE EVOLUTION OF ASTEROIDS ­ RUBBLE PILE. ... Evidently, we can distinguish two processes: distant interactions, where there is no direct contact between separate fragments, and close contact interactions, where the fragments collide with one another. ... Such a rubble pile with a dust atmosphere differs from a cometary nucleus only in the absence of a volatile gas component, which is usually considered the cause of the appearance of cometary dust. ...