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Jeremy Webb

Astrophysicist and assistant professor (York University / University of Toronto) researching stellar streams, globular clusters, and exoplanets.

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Oct 6, 2026

Life is But a Stream: Planetary Systems Along Stellar Streams

Oct 6 · 33m

Moiya McTierHOST

1:32

I'm curious what the inspiration for this project was.

Jeremy WebbGUEST

1:37

Yeah, so this project kind of came out of some previous work that I was doing with one of the co-authors on the paper, Simone Portuguese-Swart.

Jeremy WebbGUEST

1:44

And it was something we just finished up maybe five or six years ago on something called Solar Siblings.

Jeremy WebbGUEST

1:51

So when stars form, they don't form by themselves in a galaxy.

Jeremy WebbGUEST

1:55

So you have these big molecular clouds, they collapse, and they don't just collapse to form one star by themselves.

Jeremy WebbGUEST

2:01

They fragment and multiple stars will form.

Jeremy WebbGUEST

2:04

Sometimes you just get a few tens of stars and they drift apart pretty quickly.

6 MINS LATER

Moiya McTierHOST

7:39

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