Consolidated Grant for Astrophysics and Space Science at the University of Kent

我们的太阳和行星是太阳系的一部分，太阳系包含许多其他物体，包括小行星和人造卫星。这些都是由非凡的速度带来的非凡的动力学现象。这个系统只是我们银河系中数十亿个系统中的一个，它的起源和发展将我们的想象力和技术扩展到了极限，涉及相当未探索的动力学和物理概念。天体物理学和行星科学中心（CAPS）请求长期资助，以支持一项成功的研究方案，研究太阳系的起源、恒星和恒星系统的形成。与分子云、原行星盘以及现在的太阳系有关的物理机制对我们的经验来说是陌生的，但在我们银河系的星际介质中是正常的。该中心的目的是探索新的观测现象，新的物理概念和测试创新的想法。

Our Sun and planet are part of the Solar System which contains many other objects including asteroids and man-made satellites. These are all subject to remarkable dynamical phenomena brought about by extraordinary speeds. This System is just one of billions in our Galaxy, of which the origins and development stretch our imaginations and technology to the limit, involving quite unexplored dynamical and physical concepts. The Centre for Astrophysics and Planetary Science (CAPS) requests long-term funding to support a successful programme of research into the origins of the Solar System, forming stars and stellar systems. The physical regimes associated with molecular clouds, protoplanetary discs as well as the present Solar System are foreign to our experience but the norm in the interstellar medium of our Galaxy. The aim of the Centre is to explore the new observational phenomena, novel physical concepts and to test innovative ideas.