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Sounds of Science - How Earth Came to Be: From the Big Bang to Planet Formation
Presenter: Matthew Penny, Assistant Professor, LSU Department of Physics & Astronomy and Center for Computation & Technology
The past quarter century has brought the discovery of thousands of planets orbiting other stars and new telescopes that can observe planetary systems as they form. With these, astronomers are finally building a fuller picture of planetary systems other than our own and how they form. But the complete story of the origin of planets and our own solar system requires reaching back further in time to understand how the ingredients that built the planets were gathered from exploding stars, and how the very existence of planets around a star may depend on where that star was born. I will take you on a tour of the late history of the universe, through some of the most monumental upheavals, to reveal how we are all connected to the big bang.
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