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

Bizzarro | Professor | 23 Sep 2009
The Earth´s oceans were formed by water from comets Comets filled with ice and not stony...
Bizzarro | Professor | 10 Jul 2009
The first 100,000 years of low-mass protostars One of the big open questions in the formation...

Seminar

11 Feb 2010 - 14:00 Dr. Odysseas Dionatos
Jets are an important component of the star-formation process, as they are believed to remove the...