The exact age and time of the formation of the solar system has been determined

Find out the exact age of our solar systemexperts from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory were able to announce that its formation took "only" about 200,000 years, which is much less than the time of formation of similar systems.

In the cosmic time scale, the term of educationThe solar system is extremely small. Scientists came to this conclusion after studying the isotopes of molybdenum identified in meteorites. Accurate determination of the age of our system is extremely complicated by the huge time periods, much longer than the time that mankind has observed the Universe. According to modern science, the age of the Universe is 13.799 billion years, and some of the stars of our Milky Way galaxy were formed about 10 billion years ago.

Research data on stellar systems similar toour solar system show that the process of collapse of a gas-dust cloud and ignition of a star takes from 1 to 2 million years. Our solar system was formed as a result of the collapse of a large gas and dust cloud about 4.5 billion years ago, but the process of forming the system itself took only 200,000 years.

The oldest solids that can beidentified by the time of formation, in the solar system - these are inclusions rich in calcium and aluminum (CAI). Samples indicate the time of the formation of our solar system. CAIs are inclusions in meteorites up to two centimeters in size, which formed at high temperatures exceeding 1300 degrees Kelvin, in the immediate vicinity of the nascent Sun and only then were transported on meteorites to distant parts of our system.

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