How a solar system is made

How A Solar System Is Made

By: Brooklyn A.

How A Solar System Is Made:

• Gravity pulls gasses and dust together into a dust cloud. That dust cloud then turns into a solar nebula.


The solar nebula start to spin, due to gravity pulling particles to the center, and turns into a flat disk.


When particles and gasses reach the center of the solar nebula, the nebula sparks, creating a star.


99% of the remaining dust and particles are pulled into the new star, forming it into a sun.


The remaining 1% of the particles rotate around the sun. Smaller particles collide with bigger ones, and form planets.


The gravitational pull, and the pull of dark matter, leaves orbits between the planets. Gasses, dust, and particles get pulled into the planet’s orbits and a solar system is created.

Definitions

• Planetary Nebula- A ring-shaped nebula formed by an expanding shell of gas around an aging star

• Solar System- The collection of planets and their moons in orbit around a sun, together with smaller bodies, such as asteroids, meteoroids, and comets

• Terrestrial Planet- A compacted, rocky-surfaced planet Ex: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, and Pluto

• Jovian Planets- A very gaseous-natured planet Ex: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune

• Solar Nebula- A massive cloud in space, made up of gas, dust, and other particles

• Orbit- The pathway for planets, stars, moons, asteroids, etc..

• Dark Matter- Nonluminous material that is postulated to exist in space

How a solar system is made

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