Stellar Astrophysics at Keele

我们的家园是围绕着星星运行的行星。要了解我们的起源和在宇宙中的位置，我们需要了解行星和恒星是如何形成的。我们将利用我们正在南非建造的一种新颖的巡天仪器，搜寻其他恒星周围的行星。利用最新最大的望远镜和卫星，我们将研究恒星诞生的恒星托儿所。我们将研究它们如何进化，它们如何相互作用，它们如何与环境相互作用，以及它们如何用化学成分丰富星际空间，新一代恒星和行星将由此形成，最终，我们自己也是由这些化学成分组成的。

Our home is a planet orbiting a star. To understand our origins and place in the universe we need to understand how planets and stars form. Using a novel sky-survey instrument, which we are building in South Africa, we will search for planets around other stars. Using the latest and biggest telescopes and satellites we will study stellar nurseries where stars are born. We will investigate how they evolve, how they interact with each other, how they interact with their environment, and how they enrich interstellar space with the chemical ingredients from which a new generation of stars and planets will form, and from which, ultimately, we ourselves are made.