BellaOnline Forums Education Astronomy How the Sun Was Born *new article*

The Sun didn't exist five billion years ago. But the material to make it did. There was even enough to make a number of stars and still have material left over for planets, moons and other small bodies. What was this material, and how did it end up as stars and planets?

How the Sun Was Born – Facts for Kids

Here is a little diagram that takes you from stellar nursery to a disk and core. We are only here because Earth formed out of the Sun's protoplanetary disk.