Welcome to the Centre for Star and Planet Formation!

We are a multidisciplinary research centre for cosmochemistry, astrophysics and astronomy funded by the Danish National Research Foundation and located at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen.

Our aim is to explore the origin and evolution of planetary systems from a dynamic perspective by integrating high-precision isotope studies of meteorites with stellar evolution theory, astrophysical models and astronomical observations. We hope to understand the circumstances that allowed for the formation of the terrestrial planets in our solar system, including the preservation of water worlds like Earth, where life has been thriving for nearly 4 billion years.

News

JJørgensen | Associate Professor | 10 Feb 2010
Water is a key ingredient for life as we know it on Earth. Most of the water in the Earth's oceans...
Bizzarro | Professor | 23 Sep 2009
The Earth´s oceans were formed by water from comets Comets filled with ice and not stony...

Seminar

26 Aug 2010 - 10:00 Maria Schönbächler
In this talk, I will discuss the application of the Pd-Ag decay system to study (i) the timing of...