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Last Post 10/3/2006 1:45 PM by  Terry Kucera
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10/3/2006 4:49 AM

    How did the sun form?


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    10/3/2006 1:45 PM
    Hi!
    We think the Sun formed from a huge cloud of gas and dust billions of years ago. This cloud was disturbed, maybe by a near by exploding star, and collapsed to form our Sun and planets. You can read more about it here:

    http://www.windows.ucar.e...on.html&edu=elem

    There are places where we think we can see this happening in other dust clouds today, like in this beautiful picture from the Hubble Space Telescope:
    http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap040707.html

    Terry

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