Five billion years ago, the Solar System did not exist. There was only a huge diffuse cloud of dust and gases turning slowly on itself. Over time, the Sun was formed, followed by the nine planets, including Earth, which formed like a snowball, by the agglomeration of matter around the original nebula.

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