{"id":4307,"date":"2010-03-11T07:05:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T13:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=4307"},"modified":"2012-04-16T12:37:59","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T17:37:59","slug":"how-a-star-is-born-mar-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/4307","title":{"rendered":"How a Star is Born (Mar. 12)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800000\">&#8220;<strong>How a star is born: Making the gas and dust soup in molecular clouds from which stars are born<\/strong>&#8221; will be presented on <strong>Fri., Mar. 12 @8pm<\/strong> in Upham Hall 140, followed by public viewing at the UWW Observatory @9:15pm (weather permitting). <\/span>It&#8217;s the Physics Dept&#8217;s first spring <a href=\"http:\/\/academics.uww.edu\/physics\/events.php#obsls\">Whitewater Observatory Lecture<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/oristar.jpg\" alt=\"The Origin of Stars cover\" class=\"alignright\" \/>Like to learn more? Andersen Library can help! Search the <a href=\"http:\/\/wtwlib.wisconsin.edu\/vwebv\/searchBasic\">HALCat<\/a> online catalog for books such as <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=UVgBoqZg8a4C&amp;source=gbs_ViewAPI\"><em>The origin of stars<\/em><\/a> (3rd-floor Main Collection, QB806 .S6 2004). Search <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/indexes\/index.html\">article databases<\/a> to find articles including &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/0004-637X\/705\/1\/650\/pdf\/0004-637X_705_1_650.pdf\">On the timescale for star formation in galaxies<\/a>&#8221; (<em>The Astrophysical Journal<\/em>, Nov. 1, 2009, vol.705, pp. 650-658) and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?direct=true&amp;db=a9h&amp;AN=47359557&amp;loginpage=login.asp&amp;site=ehost-live\">Cloudy with a chance of stars<\/a>&#8221; (<em>Scientific American<\/em>, Feb. 2010, vol.302:no.2, pp. 34-41).<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/askwi\/askwi.html\">ask a librarian<\/a> for assistance with finding materials.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark your calendars for the rest of the observatory lectures: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>April 9<\/strong>: <span style=\"color: #800000\">From Dust to Majority<\/span> (taking a star from initial collapse in a molecular cloud to the onset of nuclear fusion)<\/li>\n<li><strong>April 16<\/strong>: <span style=\"color: #800000\">The Making of a Supernova<\/span> (the evolution of stars more massive than eight solar masses to their demise in titanic explosions)<\/li>\n<li><strong>April 30<\/strong>: <span style=\"color: #800000\">The Making of a Celestial Flower<\/span> (the evolution of stars less massive than eight solar masses to their demise as planetary nebulae)<\/li>\n<li><strong>May 7<\/strong>: <span style=\"color: #800000\">When Fusion Stops, What Follows<\/span> (the long retirement of stars as white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;How a star is born: Making the gas and dust soup in molecular clouds from which stars are born&#8221; will be presented on Fri., Mar. 12 @8pm in Upham Hall 140, followed by public viewing at the UWW Observatory @9:15pm &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/4307\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[141,1684,178,353,2453,229,2681,2692],"class_list":["post-4307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-connection","tag-articles","tag-astronomy","tag-books","tag-lectures","tag-observatory","tag-physics","tag-star-formation","tag-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4307"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4309,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4307\/revisions\/4309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}