Audio File 5,000,000,000 years ago, our sun was a comparatively isolated blazing orb, having gathered to itself most of the near-by circulating matter of space, remnants of the recent upheaval which attended its own birth. Today, our sun has achieved relative stability, but its…
Audio File THE PLANET-FORMING ERA Subsequent to the birth of our solar system a period of diminishing solar disgorgement ensued. Decreasingly, for another five hundred thousand years, the sun continued to pour forth diminishing volumes of matter into surrounding space. But during these early…