[ERS120H5] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 74 pages long Study Guide!
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When small stars like sun die it releases a large shell of gas, ballooning into a red giant . Larger stars blasts matter into space during supernova. When one generation of star dies it lives heavier elements which which form nebulae by mixing with residual gas from big bang. From this nebulae new generations of stars and associated planets formed. Succeeding generation of stars contain a greater proportion of these heavier elements. The nebular theory for forming the solar system. The nebular theory, an explanation for the origin of planets, moons, asteroids, and comets. According to the nebular theory, these objects formed from the material in the flattened outer part of the disk, the material that did not become part of the star. This outer part is called the protoplanetary disk. System formed contained all 92 elements, some as isolated atoms, and some bonded to others in molecules.
