January 12, 20256:00 PM – 7:30 PMMumbai, India

Shedding Light on Light Pollution — Vol. 2

A deep-dive astrophysics talk for budding astronomers — from stellar nurseries to supernovae and the heavy elements that built us.

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Star Formation & Life took a packed planetarium auditorium from the cold molecular clouds of the Orion arm all the way to the iron in their own blood.

The arc of the talk

  1. Molecular clouds — where stars come from
  2. Protostars and the main sequence
  3. Red giants, white dwarfs and supernovae
  4. Nucleosynthesis: how the heavy elements got here
  5. Why we're literally made of star-stuff
120+
Students reached
30
Q&A submissions
20 min
Over schedule (in a good way)

A new partnership

The session kicked off a year-long partnership with Nehru Planetarium for the 2025 outreach calendar — six confirmed dates, and dome-show slots on all of them.

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