General Information

• NASA's Observatorium pages.
• Mike Guidry's pages at UTK: Birth of stars, Recipe for stars, Protostars.
• NCSA page at UIUC; IPAC page at Caltech; Ka Chun's page at U of Colorado.
• Research Groups: NASA Center for Star Formation Studies site.

More Specific Topics

• Herbig-Haro Objects: Bo Reipurth's page at UMass.

Observation Missions

• SWAS (Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite): A NASA Small Explorer Project designed to study the chemical composition of interstellar gas clouds, launched into low Earth orbit on December 05, 1998. The primary objective of SWAS is to survey water, molecular oxygen, carbon, and isotopic carbon monoxide emission in a variety of galactic star forming regions. The SWAS Science Operations Center is located at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• WIRE (Wide-Field Infrared Explorer): A past NASA mission, whose objective was to answer three questions: (1) What fraction of the luminosity of the universe at redshifts of 0.5 and beyond is due to starburst galaxies? (2) How fast and in what ways are starburst galaxies evolving? (3) Are luminous protogalaxies common at redshifts less than 3?

More Technical Papers

• V. Bromm et al, "The Formation of the First Stars. I. The Primordial Star Forming Cloud," astro-ph/0102503.
• B.G. Elmgreen, "History of Star Formation in the Universe," astro-ph/0110149.
• J. Williams, "The formation of stars in groups," astro-ph/0111308.
• R.B. Larson, "The physics of star formation," astro-ph/0306595.