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GetSet · Destination Space · Session 4

The Solar System

4.6 billion years ago, there was no Sun, no Earth and no planets. Just a huge, spinning cloud of gas and dust. This session shows how gravity pulled that cloud together into the Sun and its planets, and why the rocky planets ended up close in while the giants formed further out. Every world has an origin story.

How Did the Solar System Form?
Discover how the tiny 0.1% of leftover stardust built everything from rocky planetesimals to massive gas giants.
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What Makes a Planet a Planet?
Explore the strict IAU "Audition" and why worlds like Pluto were stripped of their planetary titles.
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Extension 1. The Worst Weather in the Solar System
Our sun powers everything in the solar system, but it cannot burn forever. Discover how one day, billions of years from now, it will begin to die and what will happen when it does
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Extension 2. How Do Stars Die?
Explore how Jupiter has some of the most violent weather ever recorded.
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How Worlds Are Made & What Counts as a Planet? Minigame

How Worlds Are Made & What Counts as a Planet? Minigame

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