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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It’s hard to identify what happened exactly because most of the material has condensed into our planets, and the solar system formed in another region of the galaxy and moved to where it is now.
Earth formed from a theoretical region called the Solar Nebula
Likely a supernova enriched a gas cloud resulting in a star forming region.
There is a working theory that our sun and numerous other stars were formed during a period of intense star formation that coincided with a galactic collision. When a smaller galaxy merged with the Milky Way.
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