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Solar system’s birth record revised

NASAR illustration: An artist's interpretation of how the solarsystem is believed to have appeared shortly after its birth and prior to planetary formation.

Some 4.567 billion years ago, our solar system’s planets spawned from an expansive disc of gas and dust rotating around the sun. While similar processes are witnessed in younger solar systems throughout the Milky Way, the formative stages of our own … Read the full press release