A Star Is Born ... But How?

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Did you ever wonder where you came from?
You start with two hydrogen atoms.
All that stuff about the birds & the bees came way later!

my head hurts from trying to understand this stuff...

How did the universe form
the first stars?

That is the question asked by Research Scientist Daniel Wolf Savin of Columbia University's Astrophysics Laboratory.

 

This is the apparatus used by researchers in the lab to simulate the chemistry of the early universe (not your typical telescope).

Credit: Daniel Wolf Savin, Columbia University

Then he went about finding the answer.
The National Science Foundation posted a video of Dr. Savin discussing this work here.
I'm fascinated with this, but I can't even wrap my brain around it.  I'm so impressed with how people like Savin are pushing the boundaries of what is knowable.
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