• Question: How was our solar system made

    Asked by 🍕Caspar lee🍕 to Col Op, Elie, Floris, Jenn, RocketRich on 10 Mar 2016. This question was also asked by Lebron James.
    • Photo: Elie Allouis

      Elie Allouis answered on 10 Mar 2016:


      It started with a large “molecular cloud” (including hydrogen, dust, etc) that collapsed on itself at some point. It created a flattened disk – like a frisbee that started rotating on itself and in its centre, matter compressed even more until our sun formed and started.
      This created a lot of perturbations in the rest of the flattened cloud, creating spinning lumps of dust and gas that ultimately made up the planets…

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