Glimpsing the Solar System's Birth
Cosmic Journeys · Season 1 · Episode 31
Where do you look to glimpse the birth of a solar system like ours? Our sun is thought to have formed along with a range of stellar siblings. This star cluster likely moved out on its own, bound by gravity, in what astronomers call a "Moving Group."
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Season
1
Episode
31
Air Date
10/Jul/2015
Air Time
—
Runtime
24 min
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Where do you look to glimpse the birth of a solar system like ours? Our sun is thought to have formed along with a range of stellar siblings. This star cluster likely moved out on its own, bound by gravity, in what astronomers call a "Moving Group."
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