How Were Stars Formed?발음듣기
How Were Stars Formed?
(heart pounding music) Male narrator: We've all looked up at the stars at night and wondered about them but can you imagine what it would feel like if you looked up at the stars and you saw nothing, no stars at all.발음듣기
As the universe expanded, it got colder and colder and darker and darker and frankly less and less like a place that might produce things like you and me.발음듣기
You had about 75% of them were hydrogen with one proton, about 25% most of the rest were helium with two protons.발음듣기
There's also stuff that astronomers call dark matter quite frankly because they don't understand what it is.발음듣기
We know this because of studies of the cosmic background radiation that was released, you remember about 380,000 years after the big bang.발음듣기
Everywhere you look you seem to have the same temperature, the same density, the same types of atoms.발음듣기
Because it seems as if the universe was just too simple, too uniform for anything interesting to happen.발음듣기
What we're going to do in this unit is we're going to focus on how the first stars appeared.발음듣기
We'll see throughout this course that more complex things seem to appear when you have just the right Goldilocks conditions for their appearance.발음듣기
You get the idea. What were the perfect Goldilocks conditions for creating just a bit more complexity than the early universe.발음듣기
Secondly, gravity and third, tiny differences in the distribution of that matter and they were all there.발음듣기
Recent studies of the cosmic background radiation using special satellites such as the WMAP satellite, have shown that in fact there were tiny differences in the temperature of the cosmic background radiation.발음듣기
Some regions, for example were just a thousand [certain] degree hotter than other regions, now this was just enough for gravity to get to work.발음듣기
What gravity could do was to magnify those differences and turn them into something much more interesting.발음듣기
So this is what happened, gravity began to get to work on those differences and eventually it created stars, something entirely new.발음듣기
Let's see how this works. Gravity you'll remember is one of the four fundamental forces and it's the star at this part of the story.발음듣기
As [you've been] showed gravity is more powerful where there's more stuff and when things are closing together.발음듣기
Give it an example, the gravitational pull of the earth is extremely powerful on you but if you move away out into space it suddenly gets much, much weaker.발음듣기
Remember there are some areas that are just slightly hotter and slightly denser than others.발음듣기
In those areas gravity was just slightly more powerful, so what it did was it clumped those areas together.발음듣기
As they clumped together they got denser, so the power of gravity increased and they began to clump even further together.발음듣기
Gravity increases, so the whole thing is clumping a bit like a run away train and this gets faster and faster and faster.발음듣기
Now what happens, is at the center of each of those clouds of atoms, atoms begin to bang into each other, really violently and they begin to heat up particularly at the center where there are the most atoms.발음듣기
Now notice something, so far our story has been about a universe that's cooling down, suddenly we're talking about an area of the universe that's beginning to heat up for the first time.발음듣기
It's the temperature which atoms can't hold together anymore because protons can't hold on to electrons.발음듣기
What happens is you recreate the sort of plasma that existed before the creation of the cosmic background radiation.발음듣기
Now the temperature on the cloud keeps rising until eventually it reaches 10 million degrees.발음듣기
Something spectacular happens at that temperature, protons start banging together so violently that they overcome the repulsion of their positive charges and they fuse together and our now held together by the strong nuclear force.발음듣기
As that happens, there's a huge release of energy some of that matter is turned into pure energy.발음듣기
Now the center of the cloud, we have a sort of furnace that's pushing back against the force of gravity and it stabilizes the whole thing.발음듣기
From about 200 million years after the big bang the universe starts filling up with stars, billions and billions and billions of them.발음듣기
Instead of the sort of uniform mash that we saw before the appearance of the first stars, we now have a universe that's filled with stars.발음듣기
It's not just that it's more interesting to look at, stars are much more important than that.발음듣기
Our universe if filled with this sort of glowing batteries that emanate light and heat, it's a much more interesting place.발음듣기
They find them in star nurseries, they're some of the most beautiful places you can see in the heavens.발음듣기
In fact, it's worth going on to the hubble website or looking through a telescope at some of these star nurseries because they're amongst most beautiful sites you can see in the sky.발음듣기
They gave it new types of structure at many different scales from the level of the stars themselves, to galaxies, to super clusters.발음듣기
At the center you've got protons that are at extremely high temperature, as we've seen and they're fusing to form helium nuclei.발음듣기
Just around the center, around the core you have a sort of store of protons ready to be fused eventually when they sink down into the center.발음듣기
Now photons of energy and light from the center slowly work their way through the plasma taking sometimes thousands of years until eventually they reach the surface and then they flash out into space.발음듣기
Stars have a lot of structure, but stars themselves are gathered together by gravity into much larger structure.발음듣기
We call these galaxies. Our milky way is our galaxy, it contains perhaps a 100 billion, some say 200 billion stars, it's absolutely huge.발음듣기
Our local group is a cluster like that, it contains about 30 galaxies including Andromeda and the Magellanic clouds, both of which you can see with the naked eye.발음듣기
This scatter through the universe in huge webs in sort of chains but beyond that gravity is too weak to hold super cluster together.발음듣기
You'll be able to see whole super clusters moving apart and there at that scale, you can see the expansion of the universe.발음듣기
Most of the universe was then and still is cold, dark, empty and from our perspective very, very boring indeed.발음듣기
We'll see that from now on the Goldilocks conditions for further complexity and to be found not throughout the whole universe but in galaxies and above all around the stars, those cold campfires.발음듣기
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