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How were the planets in the solar system formed?.

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The remaining materials from the sun's formation clumped together due to gravity.
The dust particles were attracted by gravity from distant galaxies.
The solid materials were forced out of the sun's disc and cooled down.
The gas particles released by the sun were pulled away and became solid.

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The various planets are thought to have formed from the solar nebula, the disc-shaped cloud of gas and dust left over from the Sun's formation. The currently accepted method by which the planets formed is accretion, in which the planets began as dust grains in orbit around the central protostar.

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Our solar system formed about 4.5 billion years ago from a dense cloud of interstellar gas and dust. The cloud collapsed, possibly due to the shockwave of a nearby exploding star, called a supernova. When this dust cloud collapsed, it formed a solar nebula—a spinning, swirling disk of

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The remaining materials from the sun's formation clumped together due to gravity.

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