Nebula Vs Solar System

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The Earth was a planet that was believed to be the center of the Universe until Copernicus proposed that the planets orbited the sun, and Galileo had found data that supported the theory of a heliocentric universe. It wasn’t until Isaac Newton that the planetary motion mystery was solved with mathematical certainty, and it was official that the planets orbited the Sun. Since then, there have been many scientific breakthroughs on where our planets sit in the celestial scheme of things. The most unique characteristic of the Earth would be that it contains life on every part of the planet. A long time ago though there was no life on Earth, approximately 4.6 billion years ago. Emmanuel Kant was the philosopher that created the most widely held theory of the origin of the Earth, and the Solar System. The same theory was later advanced by the French Mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace. Both of them had come up with the theory that the Sun and planets were condensed from a Nebula, which since then has been supported from data that more powerful spectrometers and telescopes have collected. A Nebula is an exploded star that has exhausted its nuclear fuel, and science since then has proven that the material from these exploded stars can turn into planets. Process in which this happens is simple; it starts off …show more content…

One of the first ways is appearance; in our own solar system, we have varying planets such as gas giants like Jupiter or Saturn, and more terrestrial or rock based planets like Earth or Mars. What makes these large differences is the distance from the sun, in which varies with the planets; the planets that are closer to the sun are more condensed and Earth like from the heat, while the planets that are farther from the sun are more gas like and have ice particles forming in them. So one of the main components that causes the difference between the planets in our solar system is heat from the

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