POP QUIZ! Our Milky Way Galaxy is very old, but we still observe stars forming within it. Where in the Galaxy does most of that star formation occur? (See below for helpful images.) If you don't know, just guess. Answer tomorrow.
tangent: I was reading on accretion disks yesterday and learned a fascinating thing > Accretion process can convert about 10 percent to over 40 percent of the mass of an object into energy as compared to around 0.7 percent for nuclear fusion processes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accretion_disk …
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gravity ftw! It's the reason we can see quasars billions of light-years away.
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hey I think your focus is more astrophysics than planetary science, but maybe you can answer a question I've been thinking recently about Martian climate and terraforming and thinking about writing a big Martian climate simulator - do you know of anything already done like this?
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