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https://phys.org/news/2017-12-scientists-solar-giant-star.html

Scientists describe how solar system could have formed in bubble around giant star

December 22, 2017, University of Chicago

Despite the many impressive discoveries humans have made about the universe, scientists are still unsure about the birth story of our solar system.

Scientists with the University of Chicago have laid out a comprehensive theory for how our solar system could have formed in the wind-blown bubbles around a giant, long-dead star. Published Dec. 22 in the Astrophysical Journal, the study addresses a nagging cosmic mystery about the abundance of two elements in our solar system compared to the rest of the galaxy.

The general prevailing theory is that our solar system formed billions of years ago near a supernova. But the new scenario instead begins with a giant type of star called a Wolf-Rayet star, which is more than 40 to 50 times the size of our own sun. They burn the hottest of all stars, producing tons of elements which are flung off the surface in an intense stellar wind. As the Wolf-Rayet star sheds its mass, the stellar wind plows through the material that was around it, forming a bubble structure with a dense shell.

"The shell of such a bubble is a good place to produce stars," because dust and gas become trapped inside where they can condense into stars, said coauthor Nicolas Dauphas, professor in the Department of Geophysical Sciences. The authors estimate that 1 percent to 16 percent of all sun-like stars could be formed in such stellar nurseries.


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-12-scientists-solar-giant-star.html#jCp

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Any comments on the above scenario? Cosmologists of course have now seen stellar systems in various stages of formation mostly supporting the Nebular hypothesis  model. I don't believe the above methodology invalidates that to any great degree.

Edited December 23, 2017 by beecee