SMRTR Science & EngineeringMar 2, 2026Quanta Magazine

What Crystals Older Than the Sun Reveal About the Start of the Solar System

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Ancient dust grains in meteorites, older than our solar system, reveal how the sun and planets formed 4.6 billion years ago from a collapsing dust cloud.

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