Solar

NEBULA THEORY
Group 5 Members;

Raziya Fazira Jusin

Abran Lylsel
Winnie Bhoy Laagay
Nicole Anne Gonzales
Hanna Isabelle M. Gonzales
Pia Janiva
 WHO PROPOSED
NEBULAR THEORY

● In 1734 Swedish philosopher Emanuel

Swedenborg proposed that the planets
formed out of a nebular crust that had
surrounded the Sun and then broken apart.
 SOLAR
NEBULA
The formation of our solar system
from a nebula cloud made from a
collection of dust and gas.
SOLAR NEBULAR THEORY
● Gravity pulled this cloud of dust together and it created a hot dense object in the
center called a PROTOSTAR.
● These clouds of dust particles ranged in size from a grain of sand to planet sized
rocks.
● The nebula started to collapse and rotate in a flat disk.
SOLAR NEBULAR THEORY
● Gravity pulled this cloud of dust together and it created a hot dense object in the
center called a PROTOSTAR.
● These clouds of dust particles ranged in size from a grain of sand to planet sized
rocks.
● The nebula started to collapse and rotate in a flat disk.
 SOLAR NEBULAR THEORY: SUN

When the temperature reaches 10,000,000

Celsius, nuclear fusion begins and the
protostar begins producing energy.

Enormous pressure and heat cause

hydrogen atoms to combine to become
helium atoms and light energy in the core.
SOLAR NEBULAR THEORY: PLANETS
Condensed grains from nebula collide and
stick to form PLANETESIMALS.

These planetesimals grew by further

collisions called ACCRETION

Gravity holds them together, when big

enough some planetesimals eventually
become very small planets.
SOLAR NEBULAR THEORY: PLANETS II
As rotating nebular disk cooled, the only
metals and rocks could condense near sun

Far away from the Sun ice large ice

chunks were able to condense

Ice clumps were able to get much more

massive (since there was more of them);
through gravitational pull, they were able
to attract large amounts of nebular gas
and become gas giants.
PROOF FOR THE NEBULAR THEORY
Many young stars in the Orion Nebula are surrounded by dust disks: Probably sites
of planet formation right now.
 ● In summary, the planet Earth is part of a solar system
centered on the Sun. This solar system, with its star, its
classical planets, its dwarf planets, and its “leftover”
comets and asteroids, formed from a nebula full of
SUMMARY elements in the form of gas and dust. Over time, these
many very small pieces stuck together to make bigger
concentrations of mass, eventually culminating in a star
and a bunch of planets that orbit it. Asteroids (and
asteroids that fall to Earth, called meteorites), are
leftovers from this process. The starting nebula itself
formed from the destruction of a previous star that had
exploded in a supernova. The transition from the pre-
Sun star to our solar system took place shockingly
rapidly.