Science News. Science Daily: News & Articles in Science, Health, Environment & Technology. Birth of the Solar System. Birth of the Sun - Zoom Astronomy. A Globule of Gas: The Sun, like other stars, was formed in a nebula, an interstellar cloud of dust and gas (mostly hydrogen).
These stellar nurseries are abundant in the arms of spiral galaxies (like our galaxy, the Milky Way). In the stellar nursery, dense parts of the clouds undergo gravitational collapse and compress to form a rotating gas globule.
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