How Sun Was Formed 4.6 Billion Years Ago
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Sun is our solar system's only star, formed about 4.6 billion years ago
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Sun is the largest object in our solar system and its diameter is about 1.4 million kilometers
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The hot glowing ball of hydrogen and helium is around 150 million kilometers from Earth
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Life on Earth would not be possible without Sun's light and energy as its gravity holds our solar system together
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Sun was born when the solar system formed from the gravitational collapse of a "dense" giant molecular cloud of gas and dust, composed mainly of hydrogen and helium
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After the cloud collapsed, the majority of the mass concentrated onto the centre and created sun
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Much of the remaining material formed the planets and other objects
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Like all stars, Sun will also eventually run out of energy with scientists predicting it will last another 5 billion years
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