Solar System Formation

Age of the Solar System

100

This is the age of our solar system.

4.5-4.6 Billion Years

200

This is what our solar system is believed to have started from.

Nebula

300

This is the greatest piece of evidence for the age of the solar system.

Meteorites

400

Due to its size, the sun should burn for this amount of time

10 Billion Years

500

This is the end stage of our sun's existence.

White Dwarf

Materials

100

This is the element that the sun is primarily made of.

Hydrogen

200

This is the element that hydrogen fuses into.

Helium

300

Most terrestrial planets are made of this element.

Silicon

400

Cores of planets are made of mostly this element

Iron

500

Due to distance from the sun, the gasses that make up jovian planets are often seen as this.

Frozen/Ice

Part of the process

100

The solar system formed from this

Nebula

200

This is the large, quickly spinning object that the objects in our solar system form from

Accretion Disk

300

The process that begins the formation of objects from very small particles

Condensation

400

Large objects on their way to becoming planets or a star inside an accretion disk

Protoplanets/Protostars

500

This is the force that turns a nebula into an accretion disk

Gravity

Parts of the sun

100

Innermost part of the sun where fusion occurs

Core

200

Outermost "crown" of the sun

Corona

300

Only part of the sun we can see with our eyes

Photosphere

400

An almost burn-like spot on the surface of the sun

Sun spot

500

This is the state of matter created in the sun by super heating the hydrogen gas

Plasma