Tour the inner solar system

Approximately 4.5 billion years ago, a cold cloud of gas and dust buried deep in one of the Milky Way galaxy’s spiral arms started to collapse. From there, gravity worked its magic. The cloud began to contract and fragment; one of those fragments was destined to become our Sun and the rest of the solarContinue reading “Tour the inner solar system”

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