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Our solar system was created by the gravitational collapse of the _____.

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Solar Nebula?

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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. (I thought everyone knew this.)

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