Hey Adam, how's it going?

Going pretty well, how you doing?

Looking forward to speaking to you.

What a...

Let me just tell the viewers a little bit first,

because I've been reading this and excited.

Astrophysicist and offer of the book The Little Book of Aliens.

Adam is a leading expert on the final stages of evolution for stars like the Sun and his computational research

group at the University of Rochester has developed advanced supercomputer tools for

studying how stars form and how they die? Oh my goodness. Self-described evangelist of science is committed

to showing others the beauty and power of science and exploring the proper context of science and culture.

Can we start then?

How do stars form?

They form, yeah, it's interesting because that was a big chunk.

Before I started studying life in the universe.

One of my big projects as an astrophysicist.

I've been an astrophysicist for 30 years

was studying how stars form from giant clouds of gas.

So you see all those beautiful James Webb Space Telescope images,

the ones that showed like these crazy sculptures,

these beautiful gaseous clouds.

Those are star forming nurseries, basically.

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