Scientists estimate solar nebula’s lifetime

Friday, February 10, 2017 - 10:01 in Astronomy & Space

About 4.6 billion years ago, an enormous cloud of hydrogen gas and dust collapsed under its own weight, eventually flattening into a disk called the solar nebula. Most of this interstellar material contracted at the ... Read more

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