- #1
pixel01
- 688
- 1
Could you please show me some standard websites about the creation of our solar system?
Thanks
Thanks
The most widely accepted theory for the creation of our solar system is the Nebular Hypothesis. This theory proposes that our solar system formed approximately 4.6 billion years ago from a giant cloud of gas and dust called the solar nebula.
Several lines of evidence support the Nebular Hypothesis, including the fact that all the planets orbit the sun in the same direction and on roughly the same plane, the composition of the planets and the sun are similar, and the presence of debris disks and protoplanetary disks around young stars.
Gravity played a crucial role in the formation of our solar system. As the solar nebula collapsed due to its own gravity, it spun faster and flattened into a disk. This disk then formed into clumps, which eventually became the planets, moons, and other objects in our solar system.
The current understanding is that our sun and planets formed simultaneously from the same cloud of gas and dust. As the sun began to form in the center of the cloud, the remaining material in the outer regions began to clump together and form planets through the process of accretion.
Scientists believe that the leftover material from the formation of our solar system either formed into small objects such as asteroids and comets, or was blown away by the solar wind. This leftover material can still be found in the form of the Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud.