UNIVERSE
SOLAR SYSTEM FORMATION
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clumps of rocky material between the stars
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the same cloud of gas as our sun
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they flung out of our young sun
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gas cloud in the orion nebula
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Sun and the planets formed together, 4.6 billion years ago, from a cloud of gas and dust called the solar nebula. A shock wave from a nearby supernova explosion probably initiated the collapse of the solar nebula. The Sun formed in the center, and the planets formed in a thin disk orbiting around it.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Solar System is made up of the Sun and all of the smaller objects that move around it. Apart from the Sun, the largest members of the Solar System are the eight major planets. Nearest the Sun are four fairly small, rocky planets-Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.
Detailed explanation-3: -Solar shockwaves would have produced proto-planetary rings at different times, meaning the planets did not form simultaneously (artist concept).
Detailed explanation-4: -The Earth formed over 4.6 billion years ago out of a mixture of dust and gas around the young sun. It grew larger thanks to countless collisions between dust particles, asteroids, and other growing planets, including one last giant impact that threw enough rock, gas, and dust into space to form the moon.