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    The origin of Earth is important to understand geology and natural processes on its surface. The most widely accepted explanation for how the solar system formed is the nebular hypothesis. According to this hypothesis, a cold spinning cloud of gas called the solar nebula collapsed under gravity and formed a protostar (the Sun) at the center. Matter outside the protostar formed protoplanets that grew by attracting material, eventually becoming the planets. The planets all orbit and spin in the same direction because they formed from the same cloud. The arrangement of rocky inner planets and gas giants outer planets is also explained by this hypothesis.

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    The origin of Earth is important to understand geology and natural processes on its surface. The most widely accepted explanation for how the solar system formed is the nebular hypothesis. According to this hypothesis, a cold spinning cloud of gas called the solar nebula collapsed under gravity and formed a protostar (the Sun) at the center. Matter outside the protostar formed protoplanets that grew by attracting material, eventually becoming the planets. The planets all orbit and spin in the same direction because they formed from the same cloud. The arrangement of rocky inner planets and gas giants outer planets is also explained by this hypothesis.

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    The origin of Earth is important to understand geology and natural processes on its surface. The most widely accepted explanation for how the solar system formed is the nebular hypothesis. According to this hypothesis, a cold spinning cloud of gas called the solar nebula collapsed under gravity and formed a protostar (the Sun) at the center. Matter outside the protostar formed protoplanets that grew by attracting material, eventually becoming the planets. The planets all orbit and spin in the same direction because they formed from the same cloud. The arrangement of rocky inner planets and gas giants outer planets is also explained by this hypothesis.

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    The origin of Earth is important to understand geology and natural processes on its surface. The most widely accepted explanation for how the solar system formed is the nebular hypothesis. According to this hypothesis, a cold spinning cloud of gas called the solar nebula collapsed under gravity and formed a protostar (the Sun) at the center. Matter outside the protostar formed protoplanets that grew by attracting material, eventually becoming the planets. The planets all orbit and spin in the same direction because they formed from the same cloud. The arrangement of rocky inner planets and gas giants outer planets is also explained by this hypothesis.

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    Origin of earth

    Is definitely very important . it forms the basis of geology. If you are goingto study the proceses taking
    place on the earth surface, the features, all the natural processes, landforms, everything regarding the
    earth seuface and sub-surface. You really need to know how the earth actually originated and then we
    can understand the composition, the processes, why actually this processes are taking place so many
    things so that’s why at very first, studying the origin is actually very important.
    The universe comprises countless galaxies. Each one containing numerous stars. Around some of those
    stars, there are planets.

    The nebular hypotheses is the most widely accepted explanation for how the sun and planets in the
    solar system may have formed. When Our solar system was first created, all that was thought to have
    existed was a cold spinning cloud of gas called the solar nebula. The nebula resulted from an uneven
    distribution of gases throughout the universe. As the gravitational pull began to condense the gas
    toward the center, the speed of the rotation increased. This caused the cloud to flatten, creating an
    accretion disc. Matter continued to collect as the growing force of gravity drew it toward the center.
    Eventually, the gas warmed from the increasing pressure. As the mass further increased, the gravity also
    increased. And as a result, the temperature continued to rise. A ball of hot gas formed in the center of
    the accretion disc creating a protostar also known as the sun. Finally, when enough gas was gathered in
    the center of the protostar, the pressure generated enough heat to fuse the atoms forming a star.
    Outside the star, matter was forming into clumps of gas, dust and rocks, which created protoplanets.
    These protoplanets continued to grow as they trapped material in their gravitational fields. Because the
    protoplanets all formed from the same cloud and dust, they travel around the sun in the same direction,
    and in the same plane. The nebular hypothesis also explains how the planets are arranged. The heat and
    solar winds caused by the sun swept the lighter gases farther out into the developing solar system. This
    is why the rocky terrestrial planets mercury, Venus, earth and mars are located closer to the sun. The
    gas giants Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune formed in the cooler outer region of the solar system.
    The solar system continued to evolve, even after its initial formation, large asteroids slammed in the
    planets and the planets themselves differentiated into layers as they slowly cooled. Although the
    nebular hypothesis cannot be directly tested, it is a useful for how a solar systems forms. It explains why
    planets orbit usually spin in the same direction and lie in the same plane. It also explains the
    arrangement of the planets with rocky planets nearest to the sun, and the gas giants farther away.

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