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2022-11-09: What If Humanity Is Among The First Spacefaring Civilizations?

  • 04:36: Habitable star formation will peak at around 15 billion years, not so far away from our current date.
  • 07:23: ... would mostly stop appearing 5 billion years after the peak of habitable star formation - which, if you remember, is 20 billion years ...

2022-05-25: The Evolution of the Modern Milky Way Galaxy

  • 03:22: ... big bang.   Back then, galaxies were raging storms of  star formation due to the abundance of gas   back then. We only see the ...
  • 05:11: ... same merger events, or were perhaps produced in the same burst of star formation triggered by that ...
  • 09:11: ... and reformed the thin  disk, and triggered a new round of star formation. ...
  • 11:10: ... made through the disk correspond to three  episodes of star formation in the Milky Way,   and one of these passes even happens to ...
  • 12:11: ... a fresh infusion of gas, probably   triggering another bout of star formation in about  2 billion years. The accompanying supernova ...

2022-05-18: What If the Galactic Habitable Zone LIMITS Intelligent Life?

  • 11:12: ... about. They started with the Milky Way’s history   of star formation and folded in estimates for  the probability of the emergence of ...

2022-01-19: How To Build The Universe in a Computer

  • 10:02: ... galaxies form, with gas and dark matter interacting to produce waves of star formation and supernovae, settling into spiral structures - just like we see in ...

2021-07-21: How Magnetism Shapes The Universe

  • 10:05: And magnetic fields also facilitate star formation after stars die.
  • 10:09: ... to compress gas in the path of that explosion, triggering bursts of new star formation. ...
  • 10:44: Their material tends to spill into the space around the galaxy before slowly raining back in, where it can be used for new star formation.

2021-04-13: What If Dark Matter Is Just Black Holes?

  • 03:31: When we look into the distance we’re actually looking back in time, so we can literally see star formation happening in the early universe.
  • 03:47: ... star formation history and heavy element abundance tells us there haven’t been anywhere ...

2020-09-21: Could Life Evolve Inside Stars?

  • 07:00: Others have speculated that cosmic strings may get trapped inside stars in the process of star formation.

2020-04-14: Was the Milky Way a Quasar?

  • 07:09: ... star formation part of a starburst isn’t energetic enough to produce the Fermi Bubbles, ...
  • 10:02: ... outflows would be compressed by shocks, provoking a sudden burst of star formation like we described ...
  • 10:34: The energy from those outflows will eventually shut down the star formation, but in the early phase it can help kick it off.
  • 11:41: ... of accretion onto the Milky Way’s central black hole and a flurry of star formation egging each other ...

2019-07-01: Thorium and the Future of Nuclear Energy

  • 15:29: ... what you had to say Steve C comments that this whole black hole killing star formation thing seems like a negative feedback Interaction more gas equals more ...

2019-06-17: How Black Holes Kill Galaxies

  • 00:08: ... turns out that they may be responsible for ending Star formation across the entire Universe When we first realized that Black Holes could ...
  • 02:54: ... into the clusters from outside of the Universe igniting bouts of extreme star formation called Star Busts as galaxies grew so did their Black Holes they ...
  • 05:24: ... in Astronomy, a dead galaxy refers to its current star formation activity in particular, the largest galaxies in the Universe are the ...
  • 07:21: ... prevent new gas arriving or it can heat the gas either case is bad for star formation in the later case is because hot gas can't form new stars gas has to ...

2018-10-25: Will We Ever Find Alien Life?

  • 07:23: ... are astrophysical factors like the rate of star formation and the fraction of these stars that form habitable worlds, biological ...

2018-03-28: The Andromeda-Milky Way Collision

  • 06:37: There's also a chance that gas throughout the galaxy will be shocked into a storm of new star formation.

2018-01-31: Kronos: Devourer Of Worlds

  • 01:32: These wide binaries are actually extremely useful tools for understanding star formation and the environment of the galaxy they live in.

2017-10-25: The Missing Mass Mystery

  • 10:44: In fact, this verifies that the epoch of star formation in our universe is far from over.

2017-05-31: The Fate of the First Stars

  • 08:03: ... of the old universe, we expect that there were violent waves of star formation followed by cascades of supernova explosions, ripping through the first ...

2017-01-25: Why Quasars are so Awesome

  • 07:29: As the first galaxies coalesced from this gas, the universe entered a long period of violent star formation.
  • 07:54: Waves of star formation, followed by waves of supernovae.

2016-10-05: Are We Alone? Galactic Civilization Challenge

  • 00:33: ... factors include the rate of star formation in the Milky Way, the number of planets per star that could support ...

2016-02-24: Why the Big Bang Definitely Happened

  • 05:46: ... colliding and merging with each other, rich in the raw materials of star formation but poor in the heavy elements released by generations of ...

2015-11-05: Why Haven't We Found Alien Life?

  • 09:33: ... planets that will ever form over the full past and future history of star formation in our universe, Earth is ...
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