When Protoplanetary Disks Start Throwing Things : Guest : Naman Bajaj
About this episode
Naman Bajaj discusses the formation of protoplanetary disks and their mass loss during the creation of solar systems.
There are 1.5 million freshly minted engineers in India every year. One of them, this week's guest Naman Bajaj, said, "well, I guess they've got enough of those," changed course, became an astronomer, scored an insane amount of time on JWST (that, in itself, is amazing - which totally rocked Kovi's and Benjamin's minds), and found that protoplanetary disks - baby solar systems - lose 85-90% of their original mass by the time they're done forming. They do so in tremendous, huge jets - some of which, in turn, spark the beginnings of other baby solar systems. Follow us everywhere! Find Benjamin at Science, Actually : https://www.scienceactually.com/ & https://www.facebook.com/actuallyscience Find Kovi at Fun Fact Science : https://www.funfactscience.com/ & https://www.facebook.com/funfactscience Find Naman here https://lpl.arizona.edu/graduate/students/naman-bajaj
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