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Last Post 3/23/2020 4:19 PM by Terry Kucera

How was the sun created?

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3/23/2020 9:21 AM
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3/23/2020 4:19 PM
Hi, We think the Sun and the rest of of the solar system were created from a big cloud of gas and dust left over from earlier stars that exploded in a supernova. Something, maybe a shock wave from another exploding star, caused that cloud to be compressed enough so that it was dense enough to forma a star, our sun. This happened over 4.5 billion years ago - a very, very long time. There is more about how the solar system formed here: https://spaceplace.nasa.g...system-formation/en/ Terry