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Explore a fascinating 51-minute lecture on planetary system formation that delves into the complex processes occurring within circumstellar disks during their first million years of evolution. Learn how dense disk-shaped gas clouds harbor various hydrodynamical processes that generate turbulence and facilitate gas accretion onto protostars. Discover the crucial role of turbulence in concentrating micron-sized dust grains into high-pressure regions, enabling their transformation into planetesimals through gravitational collapse and pebble accretion. Examine how giant storm systems, comparable to Jupiter's Great Red Spot, can form in quiet disk zones and serve as collection points for solid material, leading to the formation of terrestrial planets and giant planet cores. Gain insights into current research developments in planet formation, including the interpretation of high-resolution sub-millimeter images of circumstellar disks and their observed structures.
