The birth of stars and planets

恒星和行星是如何形成的？这个问题对于理解宇宙的演化至关重要。这个项目将解决四个问题：湍流是否决定了恒星的质量？恒星形成过程中的磁场如何改变恒星的质量分布？我们能在银河系中观测到的恒星托儿所的规模上建立恒星形成的模型吗？行星形成的初始成分是什么？该项目将通过对星团形成进行世界上最大、最详细的超级计算机模拟来实现这一目标，同时开发流体动力学的新算法和模拟方法，在六个国家建立合作关系，并公开发布主要的模拟代码。

How are stars and planets formed? The question is critical to understanding the evolution of the Universe. This project will address four questions: Does turbulence determine the mass of stars? How do magnetic fields in the star formation process change the mass distribution of stars? Can we model the formation of stars on the scale of observed stellar nurseries in the Milky Way? What are the starting ingredients for planet formation? The project will achieve this by performing the world's largest and most detailed supercomputer simulations of star cluster formation, while developing new algorithms and simulation methods for fluid dynamics, building collaborations across six countries and publicly releasing a major simulation code.