Eli5: is there any estimation on what happened before the solar system was created?

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The Earth is full of so many metals and heavy elements, this region of space must have experienced supernovae or neutron star collisions or any of a number of astronomical phenomena. Has anyone ever attempted to figure out what must have happened in the past to build our Solar System in exactly this way?

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Yes. Because of all the heavier elements present in the sun and the planets we are quite sure that the solar system is at least a second generation star and probably even a third generation star formed from the remnants of a previous star or several stars. We don’t know much of anything about the previous stars.

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