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It is postulated that a supernova explosion was the catalyst which formed our Solar System.

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Can a supernova create the solar system?

Yes. In fact our Solar System formed because of a supernova explosion. It was the impetus that was needed to get the gaseous clouds to start the initial rotation.


How is solar energy is found and how is it recovered?

The sun is in space it was from a supernova called the bigbang this solar system orbits the sun which provides heat to the planets solar panels and other devices help recover it


Where is the exploding star in the solar system?

There are no exploding stars (supernovae) in our solar system. Supernovae occur in distant parts of the galaxy, outside our solar system. The nearest known supernova to Earth was Supernova 1987A, which was located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to our Milky Way.


What do stars provide for your solar system?

It is believed that the death of a star in a supernova explosion, gave the inertia for our Solar System to begin to form.


How many planets would be eeffected if the sun had a supernova?

the whole solar system


What event might have triggered the formation of your solar system?

The shock wave from a supernova explosion.


Solar system may have been formed shortly after a supernova occurred nearby?

It need not have been "shortly after"; the key point is that part of the material in the Solar System must have come from supernova explosions, at some previous point - or we wouldn't have sufficient amounts of heavier elements.


Some radioactive isotopes found in meteorites suggest that the solar system may have been formed shortly after a supernova occurred nearby?

Yes, the presence of certain radioactive isotopes with short half-lives in meteorites suggests that the solar system formed shortly after a nearby supernova explosion, as these isotopes would have been formed in the supernova and then incorporated into the early solar system material. This timeline is supported by both astronomical observations and isotopic dating of meteorites.


How do we know that the sun was formed from a supernova?

Scientists believe that the sun was formed from a gas and dust cloud called the solar nebula, which was part of a giant molecular cloud. The supernova theory suggests that shockwaves from a nearby supernova triggered the collapse of the solar nebula, leading to the formation of the sun and the solar system. Isotopic analysis of meteorites and the sun's composition support this theory.


Was the world made by an exploding star?

It is generally accepted that the nebula that formed the solar system was "prompted" by a nearby supernova.


How is the solar system made up of?

Condensed clouds of interstellar gas that originally assembled from the remnants of nova or supernova stellar explosions that occurred many eons before our Solar System was formed.


Why do asteroids have pieces of left over solar system in them?

Asteroids ARE left over stuff, but no from the solar system, rather from a supernova which exploded billions of years ago. You, I, all people, all animals, all plants, all water, all everything on Earth and in our Solar system is made of space dust from that ancient supernova. So, you could honestly say that you are part of a billions-of-years-old star!