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1153795 No.1153795 [Reply] [Original]

Is there any name as to what star formed our solar system?

>> No.1153797

The sun.

>> No.1153805

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun

>> No.1153811

perhaps me meant the process of the formation?

>> No.1153815

i thought its romantic name was sol

>> No.1153816

I dont mean that..

I mean the star that created the matter.. the nebulae.. that formed the planets

>> No.1153823

Sol. Our star, the sun, is called Sol

>> No.1153825

How would we ever know which star(s) did that?

>> No.1153832

>>1153816

we came from the same crap that made the sun i thought?

im not really sure what ur asking tho tbh

>> No.1153845

I don't know its name, OP, but you've illustrated that /sci/ has a lot of ignorant people.

>> No.1153847

>>1153832
He's probably asking that, since we are made of stellar dust that probably comes from some sort of supernova from way earlier, what the name was of that star that exploded?

>> No.1153851

I don't get how the previous star could run out of energy and yet make the sun which has tons.

>> No.1153868

You guys are misreading OP's question completely.
He's asking the name of the star that exploded and formed our current Sun and planets.

Also I don't know the aswer, OP.

>> No.1153870

>>1153851

Protogalxies had stars that were in epic proportions similar to the largest star known to man, VY Canis Majoris.

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>>1153851
Core filled with iron. More dense than Hydrogen, it sunk to the bottom of the core and slowed fusion. Eventually the sun could not handle it because fusion with iron loses energy. The star goes into supernova.

After the supernova things start falling into the center, ordinarily iron would fall back into the center, but it has more inertia than Hydrogen. That means that as this new solar system formed and the centripetal force of gravity became stronger, hydrogen fell back in and iron and heavier element stayed farther out. Thus a new star was born and the inner planets formed.

>> No.1153893

Do we even name non-existent stars?

>> No.1153901

>>1153851
Doesn't have to use up all its hydrogen to explode. Only uses a fraction, I believe.

>> No.1153914

I say we call the star Cronus.

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>>1153795

Our sun was formed from gasses from a nebula. Only some Nebula are formed from stars going supernova and we don't actually know if the Nebula that created our star was formed that way or not.

Cool question though made me think.

>> No.1153930

>>1153893

I am OP, And i'm not too sure if they did..

I just let my mind wander about things like this..

Human evolution has a lot of names for things that no longer exists.. Why not something even further into the past?

>> No.1153948

not sure but wasn|t it nemesis?

>> No.1153968

>>1153926
Name a way to produce such large quantities of uranium other than supernovae

>> No.1153970

>>1153948
Nemesis is a hypothetical hard-to see red dwarf star or brown dwarf, orbiting the Sun at a distance of about 50,000 to 100,000 AU (about 1-2 light years), somewhat beyond the Oort cloud.

So nope.

>> No.1153993

>>1153795
It was probably a carbon star, going by the titanium oxide grains found in carbon meteorites and tektites.