More information: Cauê S. Borlina et al, Lifetime of the Outer Solar System Nebula From Carbonaceous Chondrites, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets (2022). DOI: 10.1029/2021JE007139 ...

Hard and fast details about our solar system’s beginnings are extraordinarily difficult to come by. But a research team using new measurements of pristine magnetic fields within two extremely ...

and our sun — and solar system — are no different. Astronomers call it the "pre-solar nebula" and of course it isn't around today, but we've seen enough solar systems forming throughout the ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly ... Our s is thought to have emerged from a nebula—a gargantuan cloud of dust and gas ...

Discover the order of planets in the solar system. From Mercury to Neptune, explore our solar system and learn more about our cosmic home. The solar system is our cosmic neighborhood, made up of ...

A view of a nebula called NGC 3699. One day our own solar system will look like this The sun will end its day by turning into a huge ball of gas and dust called a planetary nebula, British ...

Hopefully, when the end finally comes, our Solar System will make a planetary nebula as picturesque as IC 5148.

The presolar nebula that would one day become the solar system condensed out of one such fragment over about 100,000 years. What does a presolar nebula look like? Something like this. The Hubble ...