Welcome to the Centre for Star and Planet Formation!

We are a multidisciplinary research centre for cosmochemistry, astrophysics and astronomy funded by the Danish National Research Foundation and located at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen.

Our aim is to explore the origin and evolution of planetary systems from a dynamic perspective by integrating high-precision isotope studies of meteorites with stellar evolution theory, astrophysical models and astronomical observations. We hope to understand the circumstances that allowed for the formation of the terrestrial planets in our solar system, including the preservation of water worlds like Earth, where life has been thriving for nearly 4 billion years.

News

bjarkehjorth | 17 Jan 2012
The first planet around another star was discovered as recently as 1995, and already today we know...
GearWorker | 15 Dec 2011
StarPlan’s Lars A. Buchhave contributed to the recent discovery of the smallest exoplanet yet...
Bizzarro | 24 Jun 2011
Short-lived radioisotope systems such as the 26Al-to-26Mg decay scheme can be used to date solar...