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    The Nebular Hypothesis is the widely accepted explanation for how the solar system formed. A cold, spinning cloud of gas and dust called the solar nebula collapsed under gravity and flattened into an accretion disk. As the center heated up from pressure, a protostar formed and eventually became a star through nuclear fusion. Clumps of matter in the disk accumulated into planets and dwarf planets that continue evolving as they orbit the newborn sun.

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    The Nebular Hypothesis is the widely accepted explanation for how the solar system formed. A cold, spinning cloud of gas and dust called the solar nebula collapsed under gravity and flattened into an accretion disk. As the center heated up from pressure, a protostar formed and eventually became a star through nuclear fusion. Clumps of matter in the disk accumulated into planets and dwarf planets that continue evolving as they orbit the newborn sun.

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    The Nebular Hypothesis is the widely accepted explanation for how the solar system formed. A cold, spinning cloud of gas and dust called the solar nebula collapsed under gravity and flattened into an accretion disk. As the center heated up from pressure, a protostar formed and eventually became a star through nuclear fusion. Clumps of matter in the disk accumulated into planets and dwarf planets that continue evolving as they orbit the newborn sun.

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    The Nebular Hypothesis is the widely accepted explanation for how the solar system formed. A cold, spinning cloud of gas and dust called the solar nebula collapsed under gravity and flattened into an accretion disk. As the center heated up from pressure, a protostar formed and eventually became a star through nuclear fusion. Clumps of matter in the disk accumulated into planets and dwarf planets that continue evolving as they orbit the newborn sun.

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    PLANET

    FORMATION
    NEBULAR HYPOTHESIS

    The Nebular Hypothesis is the most widely


    accepteed explanation for how the sun and
    planets in the solar system may have formed as
    well as their arrangement.

    SOLAR NEBULA
    A cold spinning cloud of gas
    that resulted from the uneven
    distribution of gasses in the
    universe.

    ACCRETION DISK
    As the gravitational pull began to
    condense the gas towards the center,
    the speed of the rotation increased
    caused the cloud to flatten creating
    an Accretion Disk.

    PROTOSTAR
    The gas eventually warmed from the
    increasing pressure causing the mass
    and gravity to increase forming a
    ball of hot gas in the center
    called, a protostar or the sun.

    STAR
    When enough gas gathered in the
    center of the protostar, the
    pressure generated with enough
    heat to fuse the atoms forming a
    star.

    DWARF PLANETS
    Clumps of matter,gas dust
    and rock were forming at
    the star's exterior.

    Planet's Evolution
    Planets continue to evolve
    and develop while orbiting
    the sun.

    The inner development


    As the planets orbit the
    sun large asteroids force
    the planets to form layers.

    Chriscel A. Boteros
    Kihan Y. Yap
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