The Birth of Star Clusters

In the Milky Way groups of stars range from sparse collections of only a few dozen stars, to massive globular clusters with a million members. Dr. Stahler will explain the basic reason why Nature forms stars in groups and why different regions of space create such vastly different entities. This talk will outline a new and comprehensive theory for the origin of star clusters based on observations, not only of the clusters themselves, but also of the diffuse gas clouds that create all stars.

Speaker: Steven Stahler, UC Berkeley