How did Our Solar System Form?
This is practically the most common questions people ask themselves - how did our Solar system form?
The planets, the moons, and millions of asteroids and comets circling the Sun make up the Solar system - our local corner of the cosmos. Our Solar system consists of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars - which are the rocky worlds, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune - which are gas Giants and a frozen ball of ice - Pluto.
The most essential source for a Solar system's formation is the birth of a star. Stars are born in vast clouds of gas called Nebulae. The dense cloud of dust and gas starts to collapse under its own gravity. Individual clumps continue to collapse, growing hotter and hotter. When a clump's central temperature reaches 10 million °C, nuclear fusion reactions start, and a star is born.
Thousands of years later, gas and dust not incorporated into the young star may eventually form into a system of planets, thereby leading to the formation of a Solar system.
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