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SUMMARY:Building planets and the ingredients for life between the stars - 
 Professor Ewine van Dishoeck Sterrewacht\, Leiden
DTSTART:20110615T151500Z
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CONTACT:Leona Hope-Coles
DESCRIPTION: One of the most exciting developments in astronomy is the dis
 covery of planets around stars other than our Sun.  More than 500 exo-plan
 ets have now been detected.  But how do these planets form\, and why are t
 hey so different from our own solar system?  Which ingredients are availab
 le to build them?  Thanks to powerful new telescopes\, in particular the H
 erschel Space Observatory and pioneering millimeter interferometers\, astr
 onomers are starting to address these age-old questions scientifically.  I
 n this talk\, an overview will be given of how stars and planets are born 
 in the extremely cold and tenuous clouds between the stars in the Milky Wa
 y.  Special attention will be given to the formation of protoplanetary dis
 ks in the embedded phase and their evolution.  These clouds also contain w
 ater and a surprisingly rich variety of organic material.  How and where w
 as the water formed that is now in our oceans on Earth?  Can these organic
  molecules end up on new planets and form the basis for pre-biotic materia
 l and eventually life?  The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (
 ALMA)\, under construction in Chile and planned to be fully operational in
  2013\, will be able to zoom into the planet-forming zones of disks around
  young stars and revolutionize this field in the near future.
LOCATION:Pippard Lecture Theatre\, Cavendish Laboratory
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