Jupiter Saved Earth From Spiralling Into the Sun

Jupiter Saved Earth from Spiralling Into the Sun

The gas giant’s early growth carved rings in the protoplanetary disk that surrounded our Sun billions of years ago. This process set the architecture for the inner Solar System and prevented Earth from spiraling into the Sun.

Jupiter beat Earth to a place in the solar system 4.6 billion years ago – The Observatorial

Astronomy|Jupiter’s gravity carved holes in the dust disk of the nascent solar system. The building blocks of the Earth settled in one of them. The summary is made by artificial intelligence and checked by a human. The planet Jupiter had a significant impact on the birth of the Earth and its location, say Rice University […]