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The Sun and the planets

The birth of the Solar System

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The story for kids

A big cloud of gas and dust started to spin, like a spinning disk. In the middle, the Sun lit up. And the dust stuck together: grains of sand, pebbles, big rocks, and at the end, planets!

Facts

  • A cloud of gas and dust started to spin and became a flat disc.
  • In the middle, the Sun lit up.
  • The dust stuck together, becoming pebbles, then big rocks, then planets.

Numbers

When
4.6 billion years ago
Planets
8

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