GK
THE UNIVERSE
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Question
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The universe is the same age as our Solar System.
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The universe is older than our Solar System.
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Our Solar System is older than the universe.
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Our Solar System is about 4.6 million years old.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Our Solar System is older than the universe. Our Solar System is about 4.6 million years old.
Detailed explanation-2: -Our solar system formed about 4.5 billion years ago from a dense cloud of interstellar gas and dust. The cloud collapsed, possibly due to the shockwave of a nearby exploding star, called a supernova. When this dust cloud collapsed, it formed a solar nebula – a spinning, swirling disk of material.
Detailed explanation-3: -The universe is nearly 14 billion years old, our solar system is 4.6 billion years old, life on Earth has existed for maybe 3.8 billion years, and humans have been around for only a few hundred thousand years. In other words, the universe has existed roughly 56, 000 times longer than our species has.
Detailed explanation-4: -The age of the solar system, derived from the study of meteorites (thought to be the oldest accessible material around) is near 5 billion years; that of the Earth is taken as 4.6 billion years. The oldest rocks on Earth are dated as 3.8 billion years.